TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 34-35 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE PHILOSOPHY WHICH HAS KEPT
BLOOMFIELD RESIDENTIAL
"The people who moved to Bloomfield in the last... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 36-37 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionDELORIS LITTLE-
THE TOWNSHIP'S FIRST ACTING CLERK
Deloris V. Little first came to the Township offic... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 38-39 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHIS AREA WAS ONCE A WILDERNESS
The carefully landscaped well-tended lawns and solidly
built houses ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 40-41 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTWO FRIENDS SET OUT TO FIND THE LAST REACHES
OF CIVILIZATION
Tocqueville and Beaumont, with their gr... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 42-43 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTOCQUEVILLE FINDS HIS WILDERNESS
While Tocqueville and Beaumont came to Bloomfield
eleven years afte... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 44-45 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionMAJESTY AND ORDER; CHAOS AND CONFUSION
"Majesty and order are overhead--near the ground, all is
chao... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 46-47 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE KIRK IN THE HILLS
Tocqueville's inquiries into the religious practices of our
pioneer families w... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 54-55 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN
THE FOX AND THE CHIPPEWA
Under the heading, "A Good Many Dead Indians," a 1... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 56.57 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionREPORTS OF THE INTERMINABLE SWAMP
While Detroit had been founded in 1701, the first
white settler di... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 58-59 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionSHOUTS OF JOY
In the early part of the fall of 1818, two groups of men
from Detroit decided to see f... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 60-61 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE FIRST WHITE SETTLERS COME TO BLOOMFIELD
Countless articles have been written about the families ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 62-63 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionHEIGH-HO FOR A LONG SLEIGH RIDE
If it seems strange that the early settlers arrived in the
middle of... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 64-65 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE LOG HOUSE
The first thing the settler had to do was build shelter for his
family. This meant fel... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 66-67 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionINSIDE THE LOG HOUSE,
A CHEERFUL FIRE, A HAPPY FAMILY
We owe most of our glimpses into life in early... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 68-69 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionFAMILY GROUPS EMIGRATED IN THE EARLY DAYS
We can easily trace the next settlers as they bought land
... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 70-71 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionOUR FIRST POSTAL ADDRESS WAS
"BLOOMFIELD, MICHIGAN"
Contact with relatives and friends must have bee... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 72-73 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE HUNTER HOUSE --THE EARLIEST FRAME HOUSE
IN BLOOMFIELD
John West Hunter replaced his original (se... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 74-75 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE SEARCH FOR THE TOWNSHIP'S
OLDEST HOUSE STILL STANDING
CANDIDATE #3- THE LOG CABIN
"FEATHERS PASS... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 76-77 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionCANDIDATE #2- THE ELIJAH BULL HOUSE "OLD OAK"
On the southeast shore of Wing Lake, on land originall... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 78-79 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionCANDIDATE #1 THE WINNER!
THE GILBERT LAKE HOUSE
Joseph Gilbert bought his 160 acres on Gilbert Lake ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 80-81 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionBLOOMFIELD'S CENTENNIAL FARM CANDIDATE
Depicting the charm of the long farming era, the Russell
Pick... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 82-83 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionFOUNDING FAMILIES AND CENTENNIAL FAMILIES
While we have only one Centennial Farm candidate, we
have ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 92-93 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE VAN EVERY GRISTMILL, ALIAS THE CIDER MILL
In the fall of each year, thousands of people jam into... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 94-95 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE RAILROAD COMES TO BLOOMFIELD
The first train entered Bloomfield Township in 1839. It was
horse d... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 96-97 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionOLD SAULT RACES THE HUCKLEBERRY LINE
Many tales revolve around Old Sault. The favorite one
describes... View Details
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