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Main Street in Ann Arbor c. 1908. During World War I, Germans became targets of animosity because of their alleged sympathy for the German state, and four professors in the university's German department were dismissed because of what was alleged by the regents to be an "excess" of faculty in the department.
Ann Arbor has a long history of openness to marijuana, given Ann Arbor's decriminalization of cannabis, the large number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city (one dispensary, called People's Co-op, was directly across the street from Michigan Stadium until zoning forced it to move one mile to the west), the large number of pro ...
The cover from the Ann Arbor Railroad and Steamship Lines 1911 passenger timetable. The Ann Arbor Railroad (reporting mark AA) was an American railroad that operated between Toledo, Ohio, and Elberta and Frankfort, Michigan (about 294 route miles) with train ferry operations across Lake Michigan.
The Ann Arbor station is a former Michigan Central Railroad station located at 401 Depot Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was converted into a restaurant, the Gandy Dancer , in 1970, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Michigan Central Railroad Depot in 1975.
The basis of the Ann Arbor's northern extension was the Owosso and North Western Railroad, which had graded a line between Owosso and St. Louis. The Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway, successor to the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Grand Trunk, acquired the graded roadbed and right-of-way and completed the line in August 1884. [9]
Stephen D. Bingham, Early History of Michigan, with Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators (Lansing: Thorp and Godfrey, 1888). Jonathan Marwil, A History of Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990). Mayor of Ann Arbor on LocalWiki
Michigan Stadium, nicknamed "The Big House," [8] is the American football stadium for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the largest stadium in the United States and the Western Hemisphere, the third-largest stadium in the world, and the 34th-largest sports venue in the world.
St. Patrick's Parish Complex is a historic church building, with associated rectory and cemetery, located at Northfield Church and Whitmore Lake Roads in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976. [2]