Michilimackinac Cove

Historical marker location:

500 North State Street, St. Ignace, Michigan

( Marker is on North State Street (Business Interstate 75) north of Marquette Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1959

Michigan was the site of the deadliest school massacre in American history. In 1927, a school board member in Bath, Michigan, named Andrew Kehoe detonated explosives he had planted in the local school, killing 38 children and six adults. Kehoe had also killed his wife and set fire to his farm before carrying out the attack.