TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 32 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionSUPERVISOR HOMER CASE TALKS
ABOUT HIS TOWNSHIP
"It's rather a pleasure to reminisce over the twenty ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 012-013 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionTWO GOVERNORS, SENATORS, A CABINET MEMBER
In 1846, the Michigan State Legislature decided to look
... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 014-015 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionPOLITICAL ACTIVITY ON ALL LEVELS
Charles Erwin Wilson was called C. E. when he was
serving as pres... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 016-017 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionGIANTS OF INDUSTRY CHOOSE BLOOMFIELD FOR
THEIR HOMES
Up until about 1960, most of the rising and t... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 018-019 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionPROFESSIONAL PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
ATTRACTED TO BLOOMFIELD
In the 1820s, when the first settlers... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 028-029 Date1976 SubjectWright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 DescriptionTWO FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSES
Frank Lloyd Wright designed two houses in Bloomfield.
The Melvyn Max... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 030-031 Date1976 SubjectIce storms -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionBLOOMFIELD'S CLIMATE, AND
A BICENTENNIAL ICE STORM
The climate of our area, as the climate of all ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 084-085 Date1976 SubjectGenealogy -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionTHE INTERTWINING OF CENTENNIAL FAMILIES
If we trace just four of our many Centennial families we
i... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 090-091 Date1976 SubjectStone houses -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionA STONEMASON NAMED PURDY BUILT HOUSES
FOR FOUNDING FAMILIES
Dating the stone houses, five of which... View Details
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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
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