KALAMAZOO  COUNTY, MI

GENEALOGY & LOCAL HISTORY

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Kalamazoo and Michigan History Links

Digital Kalamazoo County Histories at UMDL

Township Histories
1876 County History 
1980 TORNADO
A Glimpse of Early Kalamazoo 
Centennial History and Pageant Program
Chronology of Township, Village and City Formation
County HistorY PAGEs
Historical Markers 
Indians in Kalamazoo - Early Letters
Kalamazoo Year by Year 1824 - 1939
Obituaries from the Pioneer Society Reports
Railroads, Interubans, and Transit History
Reminiscences of Kalamazoo, 1832 -1833 by Jesse Turner
SCHOOLCRAFT MI HISTORY
VICKSBURG MI HISTORY SITE

HISTORY LINKS

Kalamazoo History and Facts
Kalamazoo Public Library Local History Collections
Kalamazoo Valley Museum history magazine, Museography, the current and past issues on line in PDF form
History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers.. Durant, Samuel W - Ancestry.com
Michigan History, Arts, and Libraries
History Matters (many links to history educational sites)
American Memory: Historical Collection for the National Digital Library - Library of Congress
Making of America - digital library of primary sources - University of Michigan contribution, over three million pages
Making of America - digital library of primary sources - Cornell University contribution, nearly a million pages
Clarke Historical Library Web Resources Directory  - Full-text files and exhibits made available on the web by the Clarke Library including Native Americans, One Room Schools, and Mapping Michigan
Bureau Of Land Management (BLM) online Land Patent Records - currently offline
Comstock Township History
Kalamazoo Place Names
Kalamazoo Railroad Depots

Place Names in Kalamazoo and other SW Michigan Counties

Titus Bronson Founder of Kalamazoo

Ghost Town of Williams

Oakwood Park - defunct amusement park in Kalamazoo
Downtown Kalamazoo Theatres 1866 to 1938
History of the Red Cross in Kalamazoo

Michigan Counties Name Origins

Michigan Civil War Rosters

Michigan in the Civil War
Michigan Railroad Passenger Stations
Michigan Centennial Farm Program

The Underground Railroad in Kalamazoo County

Potawatomi History  

Potawatomi History and Treaties 

On Line books, Pioneering  the Upper Midwest   Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin ca. 1820 - 1910 e.g. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone - Community and Kalamazoo College leader
Michigan Prison Industries History

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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://name.umdl.umich.edu/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://name.umdl.umich.edu/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://name.umdl.umich.edu/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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