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History of Michigan

Historical resources and archives about Michigan

Books on the History of South East Michigan

Silas Farmer, History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan: A Chronological Cyclopedia of the Past and Present (1890)
Special Collections, F 574 .D4 F24 1890  and online

Clarence M. Burton and M. Agnes Burton, History of Wayne County and the City of Detroit, Michigan (1930)
F 572 .W4 B97 and online

Milo M. Quaife, Condensed Historical Sketches for Each of Michigan's Counties (1940)
Special Collections,  F 572 .A15 Q3

M.A. Leeson, History of Macomb County, Michigan: Containing ... Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers, the Whole Preceded by a History of Michigan (1882)
F572 .M2 H6 1980 and online

Past and Present of Macomb County, Michigan (1905)
Online

Michigan County Histories and Atlases
428 digitized titles (many composed of multiple volumes) published before 1923.

To Go Further

Macomb County and Oakland County at Kresge Library

Bibliography of pre-statehood narratives about the Detroit area
(Clark Library, CMU)

Detroit Bibliography
A comprehensive list of sources about Detroit history, organized by topic.

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