The Detroit River / Recovery

Historical marker location:

5437 W Jefferson Ave, Trenton, Michigan

( Marker can be reached from West Jefferson Avenue, 0.1 miles south of Toledo Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2007

Michigan played an important role in the Women's Suffrage Movement. In 1918, Michigan became the first state in the Midwest to grant women the right to vote, two years before the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.