TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 048-049 Date1976 SubjectLake Maumee DescriptionOLD LAKE MAUMEE COVERED BLOOMFIELD
IN PREHISTORIC TIMES
The geological formation of Michigan and p... 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. 050-051 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Hills Mastodon DescriptionCHARLIE COME HOME
This year, as we're celebrating our 200th birthday as a
Nation, it's been sugges... 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. 052-053 Date1976 SubjectFish, Fannie DescriptionAMERICAN INDIAN INHABITANTS
Fannie Fish, in 1888, presented a paper before the
Oakland County Pion... 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: Title page Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Blossoms DescriptionLibrary of Congress Catalog Card No.76-21179
Published by Bloomfield Township Bicentennial Commissi... 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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
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