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KALAMAZOO  COUNTY, MI

GENEALOGY & LOCAL HISTORY

HISTORY PAGES INDEX AND LINKS

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HISTORY PAGES INDEX

Kalamazoo and Michigan History Links

Digital Kalamazoo County Histories at UMDL

Township Histories
Site Links

HISTORY LINKS

Kalamazoo History and Facts

Titus Bronson Founder of Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo Public Library Local History Collections

Ghost Town of Williams

Kalamazoo Valley Museum history magazine, Museography, the current and past issues on line in PDF form Oakwood Park - defunct amusement park in Kalamazoo
History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers.. Durant, Samuel W - Ancestry.com History of the Red Cross in Kalamazoo
Michigan History, Arts, and Libraries

Michigan Counties Name Origins

History Matters (many links to history educational sites)

Michigan Civil War Rosters

American Memory: Historical Collection for the National Digital Library - Library of Congress Michigan in the Civil War
Making of America - digital library of primary sources - University of Michigan contribution, over three million pages Michigan Railroad Passenger Stations
Making of America - digital library of primary sources - Cornell University contribution, nearly a million pages Michigan Centennial Farm Program
Clarke Historical Library Web Resources Directory  - Full-text files and exhibits made available on the web by the Clarke Library including American Indians, One Room Schools, and Mapping Michigan

The Underground Railroad in Kalamazoo County - Currently Offline

Bureau Of Land Management (BLM) online Land Patent Records

Potawatomi History  

Comstock Township History

Potawatomi History and Treaties 

Kalamazoo Place Names Pioneering the Upper Midwest from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin ca. 1820 - 1910
Kalamazoo Railroad Depots Michigan Prison Industries History

Place Names in Kalamazoo and other SW Michigan Counties

 

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Digital Kalamazoo County Histories at UMDL

 

University of Michigan Digital Library - UMDL

http://www.umdl.umich.edu/

Michigan County Histories Texts

"The Michigan County Histories collection is a collaborative effort of Michigan's Council of Library Directors. The collection is projected to provide access to 192 histories dating from 1866 to 1926. There are 202 volumes in 170 titles currently online.

The pages may be searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please go to http://www.umdl.umich.edu/ for more information."

 

Kalamazoo County Histories 

in the collection:

An Account of Kalamazoo County / edited by Charles A. Weissert.

Weissert, Charles Adam, 1878-1947.
343 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
[Dayton, Ohio] :
National Historical Association, Inc.,[1928].


URL: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ARH7743

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Compendium of History and Biography of Kalamazoo County, Mich. / David Fisher and Frank Little, editors.


Fisher, David, 1827-
571 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Chicago [Ill.] :
A.W. Bowen & Co.,[1906].


URL: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ARH7742

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History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan.


Durant, Samuel W. comp.
552 p. front., illus., plates (part double) ports., maps. 31 cm.
Philadelphia.
Everts & Abbott,1880.

URL: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=micounty;idno=BAD0947

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Kalamazoo County directory, with a history of the county from its earliest settlement 


v., 374 p., 23 cm.
Kalamazoo, Mich.,
J. M. Thomas, 1869


URL:http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=micounty;idno=BAD0949

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Portrait and biographical record of Kalamazoo, Allegan and Van Buren counties, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of ... citizens ... governors of the state, and ... presidents of the United States.


1144 p. , [5] p. : plates, ports., illus. ; cm.
Chicago :
Chapman brothers, 1892.


URL:http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=micounty;idno=BAD0952

 

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TOWNSHIP HISTORIES

The Kalamazoo Valley Museum has been publishing a series of township histories in its Museography online magazine.  Here are links to what has been published as of May, 2006:

The Townships of Kalamazoo County - initial article

Townships of Kalamazoo: Alamo

Townships of Kalamazoo: Brady and Charleston

Townships of Kalamazoo: Climax and Comstock

Townships of Kalamazoo: Cooper and Kalamazoo

 

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Site Links
HISTORY INDEX  1846 County History KALAMAZOO VIEWS
HISTORY PAGE 1 1876 COUNTY HISTORY Obituaries from the Pioneer Society Reports
HISTORY PAGE 2 1980 TORNADO Railroads, Interubans, and Transit History
HISTORY page 3 Chronology of Township, Village and City Formation Reminiscences of Kalamazoo, 1832 -1833 by Jesse Turner
HISTORY PAGE 4 Centennial History and Pageant Program SCHOOLCRAFT MI HISTORY
HISTORY PAGE 5 Historical Markers VICKSBURG MI HISTORY SITE
HISTORY PAGE 6 Indians in Kalamazoo - Early Letters  
HISTORY PAGE 7 Kalamazoo Mall  
HISTORY PAGE 8 Kalamazoo Theater Views  

 

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