2805, 2020
2805, 2020
2805, 2020
1838 – 1840 Map of Oakland County – Bela Hubbard, Surveyor
Created sometime between 1838 and 1840, these maps provide a really great view into the county at the time.
Reading the 1817 Maps
Ok all you map nerds, here’s how to interpret these early survey maps. This is Pontiac Township, or in survey-speak, Township 3 North, Range 11 East. You can see it’s a grid pattern. The township itself is 6 square miles, so each box in the grid is one square mile, and are called sections. Surveyors walked the lines making up the grid, creating it as they went. They started at
1817 Early Survey of Oakland County
In 1815, the Surveyor General of the United States was a man named Edward Tiffin, the former governor of Ohio. In that year, he ordered a survey of the Michigan Territory at the request of Congress, who were granting bounty lands to the veterans of the War of 1812. This survey wasn’t completed – the survey crews reported that the territory was an “interminable swamp” and not fit for agriculture
1905, 2020
Oakland Gazette
Our newsletter, The Oakland Gazette The Oakland Gazette, in (almost) continuous publication since 1968, is the newsletter for the Oakland County Pioneer and Historical Society. The newsletter not only documents important events in our history but also really interesting articles written about local historical places and figures. The older ones are a fun trip back into how the society operated in earlier times. If you are looking for something specific,
Finding Aids
Here are the finding aids.
Card Catalog
Card Catalog Here are materials and resources in our “card catalog”. It is nowhere near exhaustive and represents a very small part of our library resources. If you are looking for something specific you can try searching these indexes first. If you don’t get a result, don’t despair – contact our library staff. We’ll dig deeper. This list will develop over time as we continue to classify our library resources