Michigan Room Hours
Monday: 8:30-4:00, 5:30-8:30
Tuesday through Friday: 8:30-4:00
Saturday: By appointment only
Sunday: Closed |
Michigan Room
The Michigan Room is a local history collection housed on the lower level of the
Library Headquarters in Port Huron. This collection, of particular interest to
historians and genealogists, includes materials about St. Clair County and the
Thumb Region such as plat atlases, out-of-print texts on Michigan history,
directories, Civil War records, and High School Year Books. None of the Michigan
Room materials may be checked out, and must be used in the library with the
assistance of a Reference Librarian.
Please Note: Plat Atlases and City Directories are available in PDF
format and are LARGE files. They may not load at slower connection speeds.
The freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader
is required to view and print PDF files.
To ensure that you are not disappointed, please call ahead for your Michigan
Room visit: (810) 987-7323 ext. 124 or 125
The Reference Department on the main floor of the Library Headquarters also has
many other genealogical materials. These include the FamilySearch workstation,
local obituary files, newspaper and census indexes and a microfilm collection of
local newspapers, federal censuses for Michigan 1790-1930, selected state
censuses for Michigan, directories for Port Huron/ St. Clair County, local
funeral home records, cemetery records for St. Clair & Sanilac counties & Sarnia
Ontario, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for cities in St. Clair County, and
selected materials on Fort Gratiot. The Library also has census microfilm for
southeastern Michigan counties from 1830-1920 and Michigan Soundex for
1880-1920. St. Clair County marriage, death, probate, naturalization, and deed
records on microfilm, microfilm indexes to Ontario vital records, microfilm
passenger lists for the ports of Baltimore, Boston, New York and Philadelphia
and Detroit border crossings. City directories for Alpena (1883-1916) Bay City
(1883-1935), Detroit (1837-1935) and Flint (1885-1921) are available on
microfilm.