Mineral Well

Historical marker location:

Big Rapids, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of Northland Drive and South State Street, on the left when traveling east on Northland Drive.)

Marker installed: 1983

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.