Archives

Archives

Research Room Guidelines

Online Finding Aids

 

The Plymouth Historical Museum Archives collects and preserves material relating to Plymouth history, genealogy, Civil War history, and Abraham Lincoln. No appointment is needed during the week, but an archivist must be present to access the collection. Archives hours are the same as the Museum hours during the week. If you would like to visit the archives on the weekend, you must make an appointment before the day you would like to visit, as the archives is only staffed by appointment on weekends. You can call 734-455-8940 ext. 3 during open hours or email the archivist.

 

If you can’t visit the Archives, fill in the Archives Research Request Form (Adobe Reader required for viewing) 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 $25 to the Plymouth Historical Museum for this service. There is no charge for researching in person, but you will be charged admission to enter the Museum.

Images burned to CD: $10 each image for private use and $75 for commercial use. Images are also available in 600 dpi for $100 per image for commercial use.

Research Resources

Company C, 24th Michigan Infantry (This company formed in Kellogg Park, Plymouth, in August 1862)

Census population records for all of Wayne County (except Detroit): 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 Special Census, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930; census mortality schedules for Plymouth for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880

Genealogy material on Plymouth families from 1840 – present

Maps and Atlases of the Plymouth area; Wayne County Atlas for 1876 and 1893

Photographs relating to Plymouth and Michigan History

Plymouth Mail newspaper, September 1887—December 1954

Civil War material relating to Plymouth and Michigan in the War—photographs, letters, diaries, and the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Series

Abraham Lincoln: rare books, clip files, photographs, and other research data in the Weldon Petz Abraham Lincoln Collection archival material