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HISTORICAL MARKERS

 

Battle of Manton US-131, Manton A fight over the county seat moving from Manton to Cadillac.
Caberfae Ski Resort Caberfae Road, Cadillac History of the sky resort beginning in 1938.
Cadillac Carnegie Library 127 Beech Street, Cadillac Built in 1906. Current home of the Wexford County Historical Society.
Charles T. Mitchell House 118 North Shelby Street, Cadillac Prairie style house built in 1874 by lumberman Charles T. Mitchell.
Clam Lake Canal 6093 M-115 Canal built to connect Big and Little Clam Lakes (now Mitchell and Cadillac) in 1873.
Cobbs and Mitchell Building 100 E. Chapin Street, Cadillac Completed in 1907 it was a showplace for the Cobbs and Mitchell lumber company.
Cobbs and Mitchell Mill No. 1 329 South Street, Cadillac Site of the first sawmill which operated here from 1871 to 1940.
First Wexford County Courthouse Fourteen Mile Road, Sherman Site of the first Wexford County courthouse from 1872-1880.  It then was used as a school until 1937.
Shay Locomotive Cass Street, Cadillac The Shay locomotive allowed for lumbermen to haul logs year round.