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WANTED!
AREA HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS
BTPL
is looking for yearbooks from area high schools to keep in
our Yearbook collection, where they are available for the
many patrons who use them for research. If you have any to
donate, please contact the Adult Services Departmentat 642-5800.
If you
have any photos, stories, or other materials or memories of
our community's early days, we would love to hear from you
too!
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Local
Resources |
Bloomfield Township, The Charter Township
of Bloomfield, incorporated in 1827, was the first Township
to be established in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Bloomfield
Blossoms: Glimpses into the History of Bloomfield Township
and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan / Kay Smith. Bloomfield
Township Bicentennial Commission, 1976. View the digitized
version of Bloomfield Blossoms on the "Making of Modern
Michigan" website at http://mmm.lib.msu.edu/search/index.cfm and typing the search term "Bloomfield Blossoms."
- Bloomfield Township History Records, http://www.bloomfieldtwp.org/Community/History.htm
Note: These are old Board minute books dating back
to the first Board meeting on May 25, 1827. These minutes
are also available in CD and on microfilm in the library's
local history collection
- Bloomfield Township Township Original Land Owners, www.geocities.com/michhist/bloomfield.html
- Bloomfield Township Pre-1940 Plat Atlas, http://www.livgenmi.com/1940oaklandatlas~bloomfield.htm
- Bloomfield Historial Society, http://www.bloomfieldhistoricalsociety.org
- Birmingham, Michigan, through the years, http://www.geocities.com/bhamhist/
Bloomfield Hills,
settled in 1819 by Amasa Bagley, was known as Bagley's Corners
and Bloomfield Center until the present name was adopted in
the 1890s.
Greater West Bloomfield
Oakland County
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| Other
Reference Resources |
| 1817-1877
history of Oakland County [CD-ROM]. Troy, MI : Clarkston
Community Historical Society, c1999.
A
bicentennial historical sketch of Oakland County, Michigan,
1815-1976 / by J. Carlton Starbuck ; as edited and rewritten
by the History Committee of the Oakland County American Revolution
Bicentennial Commission.; 1976.
Bloomfield
Township Public Library: A History. [n.p.,
1977].
Bloomfield
Township Ordinances. Bloomfield Michigan 1827. [Bloomfield
Township, MI : Clerk's Office, 1973.]
Book
of records for the township of Bloomfield, 1827-1874.
Univ. Microfilms.
First
land owners of Oakland County; 1981.
History
of Bloomfield Township [videorecording] / Bloomfield Township
Public Library and Homer Case. Bloomfield Hills, MI
: Bloomfield Community Television, 2002.
Michigan,
Oakland County Genealogical Society, surname directory.
Publisher Birmingham, Mich. : Oakland County Genealogical
Society, 1983 -
Oakland
County book of history / Arthur A. Hagman, editor ; and
a staff of 100 writers. 1990.
Zoning
ordinance /Township of Bloomfield, Oakland County, State of
Michigan. [Bloomfield Township, MI: Clerks's office. LIBRARY
HAS ORDINANCE NO. 67 WITH AMMENDMENTS(1962), ORDINANCE NO.
169 (1968), ORDINANCE NO. 265 WITH AMMENDMENTS (1974).
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ECCENTRIC
(BTPL has last 6 months). Baldwin Public Library carries
microfilm 1878 - present. Indexed 1878-1995. (Index
for 1996 - present is in progress.)
Birmingham Eccentric Newspaper - The Bloomfield Township Public Library, in cooperation with the Birmingham Eccentric Newspaper, have provided the first sixteen years—dating from January 6, 1882—of the newspaper in electronic form. At the launch of this new feature on the web site, newspaper issues from 1882 through 1902 (excepting the years 1894-1897) are provided. The newspaper's weekly issues are now available for viewing.
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| Directories |
| Birmingham-Bloomfield
Hills community directory. LIBRARY HAS 1968/69 -
1987.
Birmingham
Bloomfield Hills directory and blue book 1929.
Little
blue book 1986-1987, Birmingham & Bloomfield business
and professional telephone directory.
Polk
... Birmingham/Bloomfield city directory. LIBRARY HAS
1959,
64-77, 79-80, 82, 84-86, 88, 91-93, 2000.
Birmingham
(Oakland County, Mich.) directory. 1983. (Note:
"Including Bloomfield Hills, Beverly Hills and vicinity.")
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| Yearbooks |
| Lahser
High School. 1968-71, 73-96, 98-2006
Andover
High School. 1957, 60, 62-67, 69-78, 80, 82-88,
90-96, 98, 2000-06
Cranbrook
High School. 1958-64, 67-76, 78, 80-81, 86-87
Marian
High School. 1989, 91
Brother
Rice High School. 1983-86, 88-89
Academy
of the Sacred Heart. 1972, 1974, 1978-1980
West
Hills Jr. High. 1972-75, 1977-83.
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| Census |
| State
census of Oakland County, Michigan for the year 1845.
U.S.
Census - Michigan Counties [CD-ROM]. Includes Family Quest
archives for 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870,
1880 , 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1920.
Census
Links
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| Historical
Places |
| Affleck House
(or Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House)
1925 N. Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Wright,Frank Lloyd
Architectural Style: Other
National Register of Historical Places, www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/MI/Oakland/state.html
Detroit Area Art Deco Society, www.daads.org/modern/1301/wright.htm
Bagley Inn
101 West Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills
Cranbrook
500 Lone Pine Road, Bloomfield Hills
Historic Significance: Event,
Architecture/Engineering, Person
Architect, builder, or engineer: Saarinen,Eliel, Kahn,Albert
Architectural Style: Late Gothic Revival, Moderne, Tudor Revival
National Register of Historical Places, www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/MI/Oakland/state.html
Melvyn Maxwell Smith House
5045 Ponvalley Rd., Bloomfield Township
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Architectural
Style: Other
National Register of Historical Places, www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/MI/Oakland/state.html
Detroit Area Art Deco Society, www.daads.org/modern/1301/wright.htm
The Saunders Residence: Vignettes of a Deceased Architecture
/ David M. Foxe.
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