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• Cadillac Michigan Postcards

  View historic postcards from Cadillac, Michigan, including scenes from downtown, old homes, Lake Cadillac and many more.

• Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

  • Camps by State

    • Michigan

• DNR - Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, Roscommon

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• GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Michigan

  GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

• Ghost Towns in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

• History of Michigan County Creation and Dissolution

  Chart detailing the names, creation dates, dissolution dates and daughter-counties of counties in the state.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• Michigan History Online

  Stories of Michigan people and their impact on their communities, the nation and the world.

• Michigan History Timeline

• Michigan Through the Years - A Brief History of the Great Lake State

• Michigan's Historic Sites Online

  Michigan's Historic Sites Online has over 3,000 historic sites for you to explore. Information and photos of places in Michigan listed in the National Register of Historic Places and the State Register of Historic Sites, as well as places with Michigan Historical Markers.

• Mining History of Michigan Links

• Northern Michigan History (published 1895)

• Pioneering the Upper Midwest

  Pioneering the Upper Midwest, ca. 1820-1910, contains seventeenth- to early twentieth-century accounts of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin as recorded in 138 books drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division.

• Program Source International - Michigan Video Histories

  Video histories of towns in the 19th and 20th century.

  • Catalog - Specialized Michigan History Topics

    VHS and DVDs for sale.

  • Town Histories

    VHS and DVDs for sale.

• Reports of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Michigan, 1858

• Review Mirror: A look back at our lives in Detroit

  From the Detroit News. A living history project from story and photo archives.

• The Settling a State Gallery, MI Historical Museum

  Between 1830 and 1840 Michigan grew faster than any other state or territory..

• Yahoo!...History...Michigan