Wixom Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Wixom, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of North Wixom Road and West Maple Road, on the left when traveling north on North Wixom Road.)

Marker installed: 1989

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.