Marshall, Michigan born author John Bellairs based his highly acclaimed children's book The House With a Clock in Its Walls on the Cronin House which spawned a 2018 Hollywood movie starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett.
The burial sites of Elijah Fish and George Taylor in Greenwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Michigan were just added to the National Parks Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program.
Michigan is a great state and very beautiful, with tons of history to check out. You're doing yourself a displeasure if you're only sticking to the one area you live in.