Famous people's places / Detroit – East Side
Battle of Bloody Run Historical Marker
A 1977 Michigan historical marker on East Jefferson Avenue recalling the 1763 ambush of British troops by Pontiac's warriors near Elmwood Cemetery.
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Famous people's places / Pontiac, MI
Closed – archive entryPontiac Central High School
Pontiac's public high school, tracing back to 1849, where Dr. Jack Kevorkian graduated with honors in 1945; closed as a school in 2009 and later repurposed by the city.
Famous people's places / Pontiac, MI
Pontiac General Hospital
Oakland County's first hospital, in operation since the early 1900s, where pathologist Jack Kevorkian ran his early, controversial blood-transfusion experiments on dying patients in the 1960s.
Famous people's places / Pontiac
Closed – archive entryMichigan Motion Picture Studios
Pontiac's short-lived Hollywood-style studio in a former GM plant, where Oz the Great and Powerful and Batman v Superman were shot.
Famous people's places / Pontiac
Oak Hill Cemetery
Pontiac's historic city cemetery, opened in 1839, where blues musician Lightnin' Slim was buried and a state marker honors Michigan pioneer Lisette Denison Forth.
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