TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 100-101 Date1976 SubjectSchools -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township -- History DescriptionEARLY SCHOOLS
The first school in Bloomfield was a private one. It was
begun in 1822 in a log hous... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 106-107 Date1976 SubjectAutomobile racing -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionTHE CENTURY AUTO RACE AND
THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE CLUB
On a June Sunday afternoon in 1906, the farmer... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 116-117 Date1976 SubjectReal estate development -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township -- History DescriptionFARMS GIVE WAY TO SUBDIVISIONS
Wherever you live in Bloomfield Township or Bloomfield
Hills or Bir... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 118-119 Date1976 SubjectReal estate development -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township -- History DescriptionMORE FARMS AND MORE SUBDIVISIONS
Names familiar to old residents and their children
disappear from... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 120-121 Date1976 SubjectReal estate development -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township -- History DescriptionFARMS, PLATTED AND SUBDIVIDED,
BECOME LOTS, BECOME "HOME"
A section of the little book published i... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 122-123 Date1976 SubjectBagley, Amasa DescriptionTHE BAGLEY TAVERN--IT RANG WITH GOOD TIMES
Amasa Bagley was a very early Michigan pioneer, coming
... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 124-125 Date1976 SubjectReal estate development -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township -- History DescriptionFROM INTERURBIA TO SUBURBIA
VIA COLONEL GEORGE
The Interurban electric cars came up Woodward Avenu... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 126-127 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Hills Country Club (Michigan) -- History DescriptionBLOOMFILD HILLS' CLUBS
The first golf and country club in the area north of Detroit
was Bloomfield... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 128-129 Date1976 SubjectCranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) -- History DescriptionMORE OF CRANBROOK: THE MEETING HOUSE
The image of Cranbrook rightfully dominates Bloomfield
Hills.... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 130-131 Date1976 SubjectChurches -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionTHE HILLS' CHURCHES
There is more land in Bloomfield Hills dedicated to houses
of worship than the... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 132-133 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Hills DescriptionEARLY SUBURBAN RESIDENCES
Bloomfield Hills, so attractive to our first settlers, spent
its long do... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 134-135 Date1976 SubjectCranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) DescriptionCRANBROOK JEWELS-ARCHITECTURE AND ART
Families who built estates here had private art collections,
... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 136-137 Date1976 SubjectMilles, Carl, 1875-1955 DescriptionCARL MILLES' ORPHEUS FOUNTAIN
Carl Milles has more than 70 pieces of sculpture on the
grounds at C... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 138-139 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Hills (Mich.) -- Politics and government -- History DescriptionBLOOMFIELD HILLS GOVERNMENT AND CITY HALL
In 1926, the area of Bloomfield Hills had outgrown its fi... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 140-141 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Hills DescriptionCONTEMPORARY HOUSES IN THE HILLS
By the very nature of the manner in which Bloomfield
Hills made i... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 142-143 Date1976 SubjectEdsel Ford House (Bloomfield Township, Mich.) DescriptionTHE EDSEL FORD HOUSE ON WING LAKE ROAD
On a promontory overlooking Wing Lake stands an unique
hous... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 144-145 Date1976 SubjectWing Lake Road (Bloomfield Township, Mich.) -- History Description"OAK OPENINGS" AND A NATURAL BEAUTY ROAD
In several places in our history we read that the pioneers... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 146-147 Date1976 SubjectPublic buildings -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionTHE OLD BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP HALL
AND THE NEW ONE
The original seat of Township government was in t... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 148-149 Date1976 SubjectChurches -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township -- History DescriptionTHE STAUNCHLY RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY
OF "PIETY HILL"
The name "Piety Hill," bestowed on Birmingham in... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 150-151 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- Religious life DescriptionMORMON CONVERSIONS IN 1834 AND
THE STRONG CHURCHES OF 1976
Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormons, ca... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 152-153 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township Public Library DescriptionBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP'S OWN LIBRARY IS BEGUN
IN 1963
In the middle period of its great expansion, th... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 154-155 Date1976 SubjectSchools -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionCONTEMPORARY SCHOOLS
Most families moving into Bloomfield in the Sixties and
Seventies chose this ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 156-157 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- Politics and government -- History DescriptionTHE FIRST OAKLAND COUNTRY PROBATE COURT
MET IN BLOOMFIELD
When in 1880 Mrs. Nancy G. Davis read a ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 158-159 Date1976 SubjectHulet, Arno L. DescriptionAmo L. Hulet was the beloved supervisor, treasurer
and historian of Bloomfield Township for as long... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 160 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Blossoms DescriptionNULL View Details
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