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Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

DNR - Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, Roscommon

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Economic and Social Beginnings of Michigan: A Study of the Settlement of the Lower Peninsula During the Territorial Period 1805-1837

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. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Ghost Towns in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

History of the Great Lakes States

View or download digital historical and genealogical materials online, free. Books, magazines, newspapers, court records, documents, maps, archives, etc. for Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan & Wisconsin.

Library of Congress - Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820 to 1910

Michigan County Histories and Atlases

The Michigan County Histories and Atlases Digitization Project is comprised of 428 digitized titles (many composed of multiple volumes) published before 1923. The collection offers all members of the community free keyword searching and page-by-page access to digitized reproductions of Michigan county histories and atlases as a resource for historical and genealogical research.

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.

Michigan4You - The Best Stories, Sites and Fun From Around the Great Lakes State

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.

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 Making of Modern Michigan

The Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving 52 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through over 4,500 different subjects of photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials, and much more.