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- Men working inside a greenhouse at Oakview. The D.M. Ferry Company, later known as the Ferry-Morse Seed Company, expanded operations from Detroit to Avon Township in 1902. Oakview Farm comprised the area between South Rochester Road, East Hamlin Road, John R Road, and East Auburn Road. In 1912, the company increased the size of the farm northward, so that it reached to East Avon Road. Oakview was the site of the company’s trial grounds and stock seed breeding operations until 1944. (P-12) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
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- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
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- Clinton River Trail 4-sided signage. Trail map, directions to Paint Creek Trail, Library, Downtown. DR901 Digital Rochester Photograph Collection
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- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
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- Talulah Belle, 307 South Main Street. Home, clothing and jewelry fashions. Haig's, 311 South Main Street. Fine jewelry and objects of art. Kimi K, 313 South Main Street. Hair salon and spa. Arizona Saddlery, 315 South Main Street. Western clothing, equestrian items, jewelry. Santa in hot air balloon decoration above Haig's is part of the Big Bright Light Holiday show. Veiw facing West/South West.
DR1003 Digital Rochester Photograph Collection
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- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
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- Quilt In Comfort Studio (left); Rick Burger Studio/Gallery (right). View from west side of the street, facing east. 308 East Street. 04/03/2010. DR683 Digital Rochester Photograph Collection
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- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 0009-08-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
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- City of Rochester, Michigan 1978 on this site: 1817 - The first house built in Oakland County. 1818 - The first settler's child born in Oakland Country. 1823 - The first school started in Rochester. The Rochester Historical Commission. Mounted on a large rock. Southeast of Alleyon Third Street. Closeup.DR165 Digital Rochester Photograph Collection
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- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 0016-05-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
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- A copy of a document from the United States General Land Office detailing the sale of public lands to Stephen Shippey of Jefferson County, New York. The land in question is described as "the west half of the South West quarter of Section Twenty Two in Township Three North of Range Eleven East in the District of Detroit and Territory of Michigan containing Eighty Acres," and consists of what would become Avon Township. The land patent is signed by President James Monroe and John McLean, Commissioner of the General Land Office on April 2, 1823. (P-7) Photograph Collection
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- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
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- Letter from H. P. Barringer to J. K. Failing of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Written on stationery from the Hotel St. James in Rochester. Stationery has photograph of the hotel and envelope is included. Originally the Lambertson House when it was built in 1847 by John V. Lambertson, this wooden structure became the Hotel St. James when it was purchased by James Wilson Smith in 1892. Located at the southwest corner of Main Street and Fifth Street (University Drive), the hotel operated until the 1930s and was eventually torn down in 1962 after falling into disrepair. (RRP-170) Ray Russell Postcard Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Chapman Dam which supplied Western Knitting Mills. Addressed to Miss Janet Hiresmann of Detroit, Michigan from Verda. Ray Russell Postcard Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
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- Rochester Municipal Park, formerly Avon Park, located between Ludlow Avenue, Woodward Avenue, North Main Street, and West Fifth Street (University). The swimming pool dam was created in the Paint Creek just north of the Rochester Community House. It was demolished in the 1980s. (RRP-277) [date is approximate] Ray Russell Postcard Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
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- A view of the boat house and walk way at Thelma Spencer Park in Rochester Hills. Spencer Park Development Slide Collection, Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm, Rochester Hills, MI
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm