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!
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