Early St. Charles

Historical marker location:

901 East Water Street, St. Charles, Michigan

( Marker is on East Water Street, 0.1 miles east of Vine Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2005

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.