Chelsea continues to be a city committed to honoring its history and is prominently displaying information about some of its historical buildings for residents and visitors alike.
On June 14, the newest of seven historic plaques to adorn downtown buildings was unveiled with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the corner of Main and Middle streets.
Included in the ceremony were some the principals involved in the effort – the building’s owner, and members of the Chelsea Area Historical Society, Preservation Chelsea, the Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce, ChelseaMich.com and the City of Chelsea.
Along with the outside plaques, poster replicas have been made that the business owners can display inside.
The project is the result of a $10,000 Community Tourism Action Plan (CTAP) grant, through the Washtenaw County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, which helped fund a historical tourism website page on ChelseaMich.com that is devoted to explaining the history of some of Chelsea’s many historic buildings. In addition, the grant helped to pay for historic walking tour maps with the plaque locations indicated with a red triangle.
For more information about the history of these downtown buildings, please go to
www.chelseamich.com/history and http://chelseamich.com/historic-plaques.
The CTAP program is a yearly, on-going community-oriented tourism marketing and development investment program initiated by the Ypsilanti Area CVB. It supports new and/or enhanced visitor-based programming focused on either or both community promotion and product development activities,” according to the grant application. In addition, it requires a $2,000 local match.
