Historical Marker

DeWitt School

Historical marker location:
17710 West Taft Street, Spring Lake, Michigan
( Marker is on West Taft Street, ½ mile west of 174th Street, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1982

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.