By royal grant, King Stanisław II Augustus (1732–1798), in 1788, for an annual fee to the Academy of Kraków (Jagiellonian University), gave perpetual possession of Michałowice to Hugo Kołłątaj (1750–1812), a priest, prominent figure of the Polish Enlightenment, coauthor of the Constitution of 3 May 1791, rector and reformer of Jagiellonian University, and finally Deputy Chancellor of Poland.

[11] Army major Tadeusz Jerzy Beniamin Żądło-Dąbrowski z Dąbrówki h. Radwan (1829–1903) obtained Michałowice village in 1875 from the Kołłątaj family.

[17] The Dąbrowski manor witnessed historical events, including the 1914 march of Marshal Józef Piłsudski's First Cadre Company under the command of Tadeusz Kasprzycki.

[23] Their son, Jerzy Zygmunt Radwan Żądło-Dąbrowski (1908–1940),[23] took part in the 1939 Defensive War of Poland (September Campaign).

[28] Beginning on 6 August of various years, commemorative marches on the route of the First Cadre Company have taken place, including a stop at the Dąbrowski Manor in Michałowice, with food and drink served, in remembrance of Tadeusz Dąbrowski feeding the Polish Army in 1914, and the beginnings of Poland's re-emergence from non-existence after the Partitions of Poland.

[29][30][31][32] The mansion/manor home (dwór) was designed by prominent architect Teodor Talowski (1857–1910) in a picturesque National Romantic and Historicism style for the Żądło-Dąbrowski family and built in the years 1892–1897.