Facing the Fire

Historical marker location:

110 West Cross Street, Ypsilanti, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of West Cross Street (State Highway 17) and North Huron Street on West Cross Street.)

at the Michigan Firehouse Museum.

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.