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    • Financials and Bylaws
  • Amenities
    • Pine Grove Overview
    • The Pine Grove Historical Museum
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    • Drayton Plains One Room School
    • The Pioneer Museum
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      • Genealogy
      • Periodicals
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      • Newspapers
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      • Underground Railroad Historic Site Tour with Willie Payne
      • 2018 5th Annual Dinner Auction!
      • 2019 Pioneer Reunion and Social – July 27, 2019
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      • 2017 Victorian Open House
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  • Lisette: The Remarkable True Story of an American Trailblazer

    Story of Elizabeth Denison Forth, Pontiac’s first black woman landowner.

    Reprinted 2022 with a foreword by DeWitt S. Dykes, Jr.

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405 Cesar E Chavez
Pontiac MI 48342
1-248-338-6732
office@ocphs.org
Typically Tuesday - Thursday from 11 am to 4 pm. Contact us if you wish to visit outside those hours. We abide by school closure schedules for Pontiac Schools: If they're having a snow day, so are we.

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Top Links
  • Aerial Photographs: Picturing Oakland County Through Time
  • Images: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library
  • Maps: Sanborn Maps, Library of Congress
  • Michiganology – Michigan Historical Center
  • Oakland County Clerk – Register of Deeds: Acreage Search – Historical Land Tract Indexes
  • Research: Land Patents, Bureau of Land Management, Government Land Office Records

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