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ARCHIVES

The Museum Archives collects and preserves material relating to Elk Rapids, genealogy, and the surrounding Chain of Lakes region.
    
If you can't visit the Archives, fill in our Archives Research Request Form and we will do our best to help you find the material you are looking for. If our Archivist does your research, we request a minimum donation of $10 to the Elk Rapids Area Historical Society for this service. If you research your own material in the Archives, we request a minimum donation of $5 for our Archivist assisting you with your material/subject.
   
Download and/or Print the
Archives Research Request Form

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Note: This Archives Research Request Form is in Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have PDF reader software installed on your computer you can download one free  by clicking on the Adobe icon:

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Archivist: Glenn Neumann Archivist Assistant: Dan LeBlond Archivist Assistant: Marjorie Kinery

     Research Resources:Ceecords for all of Wayne County (except Detroit) 18

Old Tax Assessment Records for The Village of Elk Rapids (1886-1946)
  
Old Tax Assessment Records for Elk Rapids Township (1901-1946)
  
Old Voter Registration Logs (Men & Women - 1925-1927)
    
Old Plat Maps and Atlases of the Elk Rapids area & Antrim County
  
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (for the Village of   Elk Rapids only: 1895, 1900, 1907, 1928)
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Old Elk Rapids Weekly   Newspapers (various)
  
Cemetery records for Elk Rapids and surrounding communities, including:
Maple Grove Cemetery (in Elk Rapids, Antrim County MI) info on CD & Hardcopy
Clearwater Township Cemetery (Kalkaska County, MI) info on CD and Hardcopy
  
Genealogy material on Elk Rapids families (Click here to learn about Elk Rapids earliest settlers)
  
More than 3,000 photographs relating to Elk Rapids and the Chain of Lakes region's history.
They are broken down into these categories:
     
01 Scenes - Elk Rapids Area 02 - Business Places 03 - E R Township - Town Hall - Fire          Department - Cemetery
04 - Island House 05 - Scenes - Lakes & Rivers 06 - Rail Roads
07 - Farming 08 - Lumbering 09 - Churches
10 - Events 11 - Military 12 - Homes
13 - People 14 - Schools 15 - Kewadin - Milton Township
16 - Native Americans 17 - Cement Plant 18 - Hotels - Resorts
19 - Shipping - Boats - Docks 20 - Iron Works 21 Chemical Works
22 - Saw & Flour Mills - Company Store 23 - Power Dam 24 - Industry (other than Iron & Lumber)
25 - Outside Elk Rapids Area
       (Traverse City & Others)