Link to: Museum Exhibits
Research
Resources & Links
Historical Museums
Eyaawing Museum & Cultural Center (currently closed)
Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum
Northport Area Heritage Museum
Other Historical Resources
Annual Reports from the Mackinac Indian Agency, 1833-1888, compiled and translated by Larry Wyckoff
Clarke Historical Library – includes extensive Native American material and many digital newspaper databases.
Big Academic Alliance Geoportal historic maps from Leelanau County, top level here
Michiganology– a compendium of all things Michigan, valuable resource
Historic Lake Michigan shoreline imagery from 1938
Grand Traverse Genealogical Society
Manitou Passage Underwater Preserve
Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear
Omena Historical Archives at Past Perfect
Traverse Area District Library Local History Collection
The Diaries of Rev. George Nelson Smith, Northport, 1849 – 1879
The Picaresque Scholar – An extensive collection of primary sources and an ever evolving history source for scholars of the early history of our area, run by Eliot Singer.
Presbyterian Historical Society, Pearl Digital Collections, the Letters of Peter Dougherty – here you will find untranscribed letters from Reverend Peter Dougherty from 1836 onwards