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. 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. 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. 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. 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
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. 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
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