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Houses

Ingersoll Village

In the early years of World War II, building materials were scarce, and the manpower with which to build anything…

Ross Township

Day Cemetery

Location: South side of intersection of East C Avenue and North 45th Street. Status: Active    Photos: Beth Timmerman, 2010

Music

Trombley, George L. “Lem”

During the early years of the 20th century, George “Lem” Trombley became one of Kalamazoo's favorite musicians. His ragtime-era compositions…

Civil War

Underground Railroad

More than three million African-Americans lived as slaves in the Southern United States in the mid-1800s. They had few human…

Business

Kalamazoo House

Kalamazoo House c.1832-1861. Kalamazoo Public Library Photo File P-1022 “Earliest of Kalamazoo enterprises to experience a business boom were its…

News

KPL Card Sign-up

KPL wants to ensure that everyone in our community has something to read, listen to, or watch during this time…

DEI

Our Commitment to DEI

Kalamazoo Public Library’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) started years ago through employee-led change and has grown to…

Texas Township

School #15

Location: Section 28, northwest corner of RS Avenue and 6th Street. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History…

Databases

LearningExpress Library

Support for students and professionals in skill-building, test prep, and career certification. Includes GED prep.

Newspapers.com

Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 493 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 11,800+ newspapers from around…

Small Business Reference Center

Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools…

Science Reference Center

Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias,…

LitFINDER

Poetry index of 600,000 poems with 50,000 full text. Short Story Finder offers full text, explanations, biographies. Over 1,000 complete…

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