Local History
Bloomfield Hills
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.
Bloomfield Blossoms
Bloomfield Blossoms – Glimpses into the history of Bloomfield Township and Bloomfield Hills, MI. by Kay Smith.
Bloomfield Historical Society
Check out the resources of the Bloomfield Historical Society
Digital Detroit
The Detroit Historical Society has a number of pictures of Detroit from the 1960s and 1970s.
Library of Congress Sanborn Map Collection
Michigan
The State of Michigan, through the Michigan Electronic Library, has wonderful digital resources to explore about local history and genealogy.
Michigan County Histories and Atlases
Check out this resource containing digitized County sources from before 1924.
Michigan Digital Newspaper Project
Access to either digitized versions of newspapers or links to digitized newspapers made available from a variety of sources. Among these links are papers held by the Clarke Historical Library and also Michigan newspapers found in Chronicling America, a database maintained by the Library of Congress.
Michigan in the Civil War
Check out this website for more information on Michigan’s participation in Civil War history.
Unknown No Longer
A new resource from the Virginia Historical Society. Unknown No Longer features all slaves’ names across all of slave holding Virginia.
West Bloomfield
Buildings of Historical Interest
Affleck House (or Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House)
925 Bloomfield Woods, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48302
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Wright, Frank LLoyd
Architectural Style: Other
National Register of Historical Places
Lawrence Technological University
101 West Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
The Inn’s history pre-dates the Civil War – when Michigan was a territory, Andrew Jackson was
President, and Woodward Avenue was an Indian passage called the “Saginaw Trail.”
Genealogy Databases and Websites
Click here to access the library’s genealogy and website resources.
Yearbooks are kept in the closed stacks in the Local History Room. You may make an appointment with the Adult Services staff to view them. You can call us at 248-642-5800 ext. #171.
Academy of the Scared Heart. 1977-1980
Newspapers & Magazines
The Afterglow – The Afterglow magazine was published in the years 1925, 1926, and 1927. It primarily covered the Bloomfield and Birmingham areas on such topics as country homes and estates, society, book reviews, and local sports.
Birmingham Bloomfield Eagle – The Bloomfield Township Public Library has copies of this paper from January 21, 2004 until the present in our Local History Collection. You may make an appointment with an Adult Services librarian. Please call 248-642-5800, ext. # 171.
Eccentric -Browsable Digitized edition of the Bloomfield-Birmingham Eccentric Newspaper from 1882 to 1963.
Genealogy Programs
Interested in genealogy? You might want to attend the programs of the Detroit Society for Genealogical Research or the Oakland County Genealogical Society.