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Buildings

Columbia Hotel

In 1870 the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad began service through Kalamazoo with a passenger station on the southeast corner…

Texas Township

McElroy School

Location: Fractional District #4 – Section 24, south side of Q Avenue, east of 10th Street. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published…

Biographies

LeRoy, Rockwell A.

During the first decades of the 20th century, few Kalamazoo architects were perhaps as successful or as well respected as…

Neighborhoods

Redlining

A presentation and discussion about the history of redlining, racially restrictive covenants, and segregation in Kalamazoo. Learn how the federal…

Transportation

Plank Roads

As railroads expanded across the state of Michigan in the 1850s, those not adjacent to railroad lines still hoped to…

News

Inspiring Others Towards our Cause

“When ideas inspire, they spread – even without massive philanthropic capital, even without government funding.” Chronicle of Philanthropy 7/13/15 Last week…

Databases

Newspapers.com

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

Literature Criticism Online

For students, researchers, history buffs and literature lovers, there’s no better source than Literature Criticism Online to discover commentary on…

Rocket Languages

Rocket Languages is an award-winning, interactive online language learning system. Users can learn conversational language at their own pace. Languages…

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