Bath, Michigan - Site of Worst School Massacre

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Bath, Michigan - Site of Worst School Massacre

Not to disparage the victims of the recent Virginia Tech massacre, but the true worst school massacre in US history happened on May 18, 1927. A farmer and school board member used explosives to destroy his farm buildings, and the consolidated school, in Bath, Michigan. Bath is just northeast of Lansing.

The explosions killed a total of 45 people, most of them children. A plaque and the original cupola from the school are located in a park in Bath. [Don Fraysier, 04/29/2007]

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