16th Amendment to U.S. Constitution

The 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was approved by the Michigan Senate February 23, 1911.

Michigan Senate Journal 1911

Comrades on the Battlefield

Veterans Organizations (Includes descriptions of Northern Veterans of the Civil War and Comrades on the Battlefield, both founded by George E. Dolton)

Land Patents

1. Check the Federal Land Grants to determine if the land has a Federal Patent, if so direct the patron to the Bureau of Land Management.

Bureau of Land Management Dept. of Interior
7450 Boston Blvd.
Springfield, Virginia 22 153
(703) 440-1600

2.  Get the name of the Patent Holder if possible.
3.  Get Legal Coordinates of the land including quarter sections.
4.  Location R8/8/5-6. Go to DNR 85-50, This will give the parcel, patent land description, purchaser’s name, date of purchase and volume and page number for the patent.
5.  Location R19112-131. Go to Dept of State 94-64, This will give the actual volumes for the Land Patents This record group also has another index to the land patents that can be used to double check the accuracy of the patent. These indices are organized by county then legal description and land type ie agricultural or swamp. They are located on shelves number 1 and 2, Unit 12-13 of 94-64.

The Story of Michigan License Plates

The Story of Michigan License Plates
James M. Hare, Secretary of State
Published by the Michigan Department of State

Samuel Oliver Knapp

Jackson’s Quiet Promoter
by John Halsey
Michigan History Magazine Nov/Dec 1998

Photographs of Prohibition/Bootlegging/Stills

General Photos. Prohibition Folder

State Police RG 79-45. Photographic Prints. Boxes 25, 26, 27, 28.

Also newspaper scrapbooks from 1930s.

National Historic Register Files

These files are marked as permanant in the State Historic Preservation Office.  Please refer questions regarding state or national historic marker to Bob Christensen (or his future replacement)

Michigan is Uninhabitable!

This is a link to the Benj. Hough to Edward Tiffin letter that talks about how terrible Michigan’s landscape is to survey.   Didn’t help that they were in a swamp during a rainy May and October.

For more information on this and other Territorial Papers, consult the Michigan Territory Papers 12 volume set in the Library of Michigan.

Letter from Benjamin Hough to Edwin Tiffin, 1815

Michigan Cemetery Licensing Records

These are located at the Archives of Michigan, record group 88-82, cumulative box 33 and also in record group 83-53 and 85-160.  All records are part of the Department of Licensing and Regulation.

Indian names of places near the Great Lakes

Naming of Detroit is on Page 23

Indian names of places near the Great Lakes
By: Kelton, Dwight H., 1843-1906

http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/07807/0003?id=f48783e9879976df

 

Indian Names of the Great Lakes