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Brandon Township Road Records 1838-1875
TitleBrandon Township Road Records 1838-1875
Date1926-1953
SubjectBrandon Township Road Records 1838-1875
Descriptionone volume, hardbound, 13x8 1/2, 108 double sided handwritten pages.
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Brandon Township Public Library Treasurers Report 1928-1952
TitleBrandon Township Public Library Treasurers Report 1928-1952
Date1928-1952
SubjectBrandon Township Public Library Treasurers Report 1928-1952
Descriptionone volume, softbound, 8 5/8x6 5/8, 63 pages both single sided and double sided, some reciepts.
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Proceedings of the Township Meetings for the Township of Brandon, 1837-1963
TitleProceedings of the Township Meetings for the Township of Brandon, 1837-1963
Date1837-1863
SubjectBrandon Township
Descriptionone volume, hardbound, 15x9 15/16, 41 double sided pages of handwritten text.
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Brandon Township Register of Electors 1882-1916
TitleBrandon Township Register of Electors 1882-1916
Date1903
SubjectVoter records
DescriptionA handwritten, 56-page ledger headed "Register of Electors in the Township of Brandon in the County ...
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King Highway
TitleKing Highway
Datec. 1970
SubjectKing Highway Comstock Township
DescriptionB/W negative of a shopping plaza located on King Highway in Comstock Township. The businesses are, ...
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Part 05: Early political development (Windows Media version)
TitlePart 05: Early political development (Windows Media version)
Date1973
SubjectHamtramck (Mich.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
DescriptionMrs. Iris Page Butler, an African-American, known as "Hamtramck's Angel of Mercy," Health Department...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 34-35
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 36-37
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 38-39
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 ...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 40-41
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 42-43
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 42-43
Date1976
SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History
DescriptionTOCQUEVILLE FINDS HIS WILDERNESS While Tocqueville and Beaumont came to Bloomfield eleven years afte...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 44-45
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 46-47
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 54-55
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 56.57
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 58-59
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 60-61
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 ...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 62-63
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 64-65
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 66-67
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 68-69
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 ...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 70-71
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 72-73
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 74-75
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...
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Bloomfield Blossoms: p. 76-77
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...
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