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Cooper Township

Cooper Center School

Location: (District #2) – Section 17, west side of Douglas, north of D Avenue (not right at the intersection). Kalamazoo County 1873. Published by F.…

Local History

Class Photo 194?

Tamarack School (Alamo Township), Kalamazoo County, MI c.1940s (exact date is uncertain) Back Row: Jack Stoneburner, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?,…

Immigrants

The Dutch Influence

“Between 1820 and 1840, the number of Hollanders coming to America had averaged fewer than one hundred a year. Between…

KPL TV: Timely Topics

Rebuilding Burundi

Former U.S. Congressman and Kalamazoo City Commissioner Dr. Howard Wolpe, the Clinton and Obama administrations’ special envoy to Africa’s Great…

Education

Parsons Business College

Parsons Business College was a small independent business school that came into prominence soon after the Civil War. Although the…

Buildings

Marlborough Building

The Marlborough Building at 471 W. South Street was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 27, 1983.…

Black History

African American Newspapers

In addition to Kalamazoo’s principal newspapers (The Kalamazoo Gazette and The Kalamazoo Telegraph [1844-1916]), everyday life of black Kalamazoo residents…

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Great Grown-Up Spelling Bee

Each year, Kalamazoo Public Library hosts the Great Grown-up Spelling Bee to benefit Ready to Read, our early childhood literacy…

KPL TV: Michigan History

Asylum for the Insane

A History of the Kalamazoo State Hospital, presented by Dr. William A. Decker, M.D., at Kalamazoo Public Library, November 5,…

Business

Michigan Buggy Company

Few things better illustrate Kalamazoo’s rapid growth during the late nineteenth century than the rise of the city’s carriage industry.…

Databases

Referencia Latina

This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. It offers content from a variety…

MeL: Michigan eLibrary

Magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books provided to Michigan libraries and Michigan residents at home with their Michigan Driver's License…

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