Online Finding Aids

The Plymouth Historical Museum’s Archives contains myriad records of use to historical and genealogical researchers. Creating finding aids to the collections is an ongoing process. The finding aids currently available are listed below. RG stands for Record Group, which is how the collections are classified. The links open up in Adobe Reader (available for download from Adobe).

Businesses

Burroughs (RG 33)
Clarence Stevens Piano Tuning (RG 42)
Community Crier Newspaper (RG 40)
Detroit Interurban Railway (RG 49)
Daisy Manufacturing Company Finding Aid (RG 13)
Ford Village Industries (RG 48)
Gayde Businesses (RG 7)
George Starkweather Store (RG 10)
Hamilton Rifle Company (RG 19)
John McLaren Feed Store (RG 11)
Markham Air Rifle/King Manufacturing Company (RG 18)
Mettetal Airport (RG 5)
National Grocery Company (RG 43)
Pere Marquette Railroad (RG 27)
Plymouth Air Rifle Company (RG 20)
Plymouth Mail & Observer (RG 39)
Plymouth National Bank (RG 38)
Plymouth United Savings Bank (RG 23)
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (RG 8)
Schrader Funeral Home Records 1901-1920
Whitman Barnes (RG 31)

Cemeteries

Wayne County Cemeteries (RG 14)
Old Baptist (York St.) Cemetery
Shearer Cemetery
Washtenaw County Cemeteries (RG 15)
Miscellaneous Cemetery Records and Resources (RG 16)

Images

Charles Draper Collection (RG 12)
Gaffield Studio (RG 25)
Assorted Plymouth Photographs (RG 36)

Local Government

Village and City of Plymouth Government Documents (RG 1)
Township of Plymouth Government Documents (RG 2)
Historic Districts (RG 26)
Wayne County Government Documents (RG 4)

Organizations

Boy Scouts of America (RG 46)
Community Improvement Association of Plymouth Township (RG 44)
Ex-Servicemen’s Club (RG 30)
First Baptist Church (RG 29)
Grand Army of the Republic (RG 37)
Navy Mothers Clubs (RG 45)
Phoenix Mill Women’s Museum (RG 21)
Plymouth Historical Society (RG 32)
Plymouth Womens Club (RG 34)

People

Scrapbooks (RG 6) 
Scrapbook 1 Obituary Index 
A-F  G-N  P-W
Scrapbook 2 Obituary Index
Oral Histories (RG 9)

Schools

Alumni 1931
Wilcox Foundation Annual Essay Contest (RG 28)

Wartime

WWII on the Home Front (RG 17)
Weldon Petz Abraham Lincoln Collection (RG 22)
24th Michigan Infantry/Plymouth in the Civil War (RG 24)
Jack Wilcox WWII Collection (RG 41)
Michigan and the Civil War (RG 57)
Civil War (RG 60)