Wayne County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Sign, Entrance ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Heather Anderson nualamckay@gmail.com July 19, 2011, 1:44 pm Cemetery: Oak Forest Flat Rock Name: Entrance Sign Date Of Photograph: 2008 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/wayne/photos/tombstones/oakforestflatroc/sign161376gph.jpg Image file size: 69.5 Kb The City of Flat Rock was founded by Michael Vreeland on March 12,1823 and was known as "Vreelandt". The name changed to "Smooth Rock" around 1836, until it was platted as "Flat Rock" on April 6, 1838, by the Gibraltar & Flat Rock Land Company. Their plans to build a canal from Lake Erie to Lake Michigan ultimately failed when the railroad appeared. Nancy Stoeflet Vreeland, widow of Michael Vreeland's son Elias, donated a parcel of land on West Huron River Drive for a cemetery, now named Oak Forest. The cemetery is the final resting place of at least twenty-three veterans from multiple wars. (War of 1812: 3, Spanish American War: 1, Civil War: 17, WWI: 1, WWII: 1) Additional Comments: History and Photograph generously donated by Stacey Reynolds File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/wayne/photos/tombstones/oakforestflatroc/sign161376gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb