This summer, we took a few days off from prepping the house for our America250 Celebration and had most of the rooms in the house 3D scanned. You know, because that’s…what you do with your free time. Right? Which means you can take a tour – think of it as a Google Street view, but without the streets and inside a house. Outside too, it’s yours to explore. Without going
From the 1920s through the 1930s, the practice of restricting housing to different races was common across the country. We’ve created a virtual display of a 1937 map and the description pages used by real estate agents, which shows how racism played a big part in deciding who could live where. See it here: Redlining Pontiac: Racism in Real Estate Deed restrictions, like this one for a home on
Occasionally, web links to other sites change – recently the Oakland County ArcGIS team rebuilt the application that provides the map. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/e3c0d25b505a42278bcc1850433312bc Same site, different link. If you have this bookmarked you may want to update it with the new link.
The Oakland History Center and the Friends of Oak Hill Cemetery have launched a project to “Save The Headstones” at Oak Hill Cemetery. Through this project, you can donate fully or partially to repair headstones – and to get started, we made a list. If you have any questions or want more information, please contact us!
We have four storage units full of City of Pontiac historical records and we need your help going through it all! Are you looking for an easy way to help further local historical research, that you can do from your couch, if you want? Please join us on the Pontiac Documents Project–we’ll give you a quick run-down on what we are looking for, and some boxes to go through. You
The History Center took advantage of an opportunity to digitize 70 of the high school yearbooks in our collection. Take a look.
Please consider a recurring monthly donation for our Society with a recurring monthly donation. You may donate with a check payable to “OCPHS” or by following the links below. With your financial support, we can preserve and celebrate another century’s worth of Oakland County history. To make a one-time donation, please click here. To make a monthly donation, please click the Donate button below. Make sure to check the “Make