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: Book cover Dateunknown SubjectKirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) DescriptionColor photograph of blooming tree branches and Kirk in the Hills (church) from cover of 'Bloomfield ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 008-009 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Blossoms DescriptionBLOOMFIELD REDISCOVERED
The census of 1830 showed about 30 families living within
the Township's 3... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 010-011 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Townshp DescriptionTHE RISING, THE IMPORTANT, THE FAMOUS
Bloomfield Township, Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham
run a... 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. 020-021 Date1976 SubjectCranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) DescriptionA RENOWNED PUBLISHER AND A DREAM CALLED CRANBROOK
No history of this area could be conceived withou... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 022-023 Date1976 SubjectBenedict Farm (Bloomfield Township, Mich.) DescriptionTHE EARLIEST BLOOMFIELD HOUSE
STILL IN EXISTENCE
This is our Bicentennial year. It's acceptable th... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 024-025 Date1976 SubjectSodon Lake (Oakland County, Mich.) DescriptionBEAUTY AND MYSTERY IN STILL WATERS
Sodon Lake between Long Lake and Lone Pine Roads
near Franklin lo... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 026-027 Date1976 SubjectArchitects -- United States DescriptionWORLD FAMOUS ARCHITECTS DESIGN
BLOOMFIELD'S HOMES
Many architects renowned allover the world for t... 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 086-087 Date1976 SubjectPhillip Durkee Farm (Bloomfield Township, Mich.) DescriptionTHE CASE FAMILY-DIRECT DESCENDANTS
OF TWO EARLY PIONEERS
Nathaniel Case bought his land on the nor... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 088-089 Date1976 SubjectVaughan-Vernor House (Bloomfield Township, Mich.) DescriptionANOTHER FOUNDING FAMILY -
VAUGHANS AND WICKHAMS
John and Polly Vaughan bought land from the govern... 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. 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. 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
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