This self-guided Women’s History Tour invites you to experience Macomb through sites honoring the women who shaped both their community and the nation. Through these stops, you’ll discover pioneering female inventors, activists, medical innovators, artists, scholars, and political leaders whose work advanced social reform, public health, creativity, and civic life — leaving impacts that reached far beyond Macomb and McDonough County.
Created in recognition of Women’s History Month in March, the tour reveals how local female leadership helped drive national progress. As America approaches its 250th anniversary, these stories offer a powerful reminder that the American story was not built by a few famous names alone, but by determined individuals and notable females in communities like Macomb whose ideas, advocacy, and perseverance changed everyday life across the country.
Walk at your own pace, pause where history happened, and see how small-town places connect to the larger story of America.
