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This is a petition by thirty neighbors to move the South Market from Campau Park to the Truant School Ground

This letter was written with the support of "six thousand women" for a market in the southern part of the city.

This is a letter written by Emily Chamberlin on behalf of the WCCND arguing that markets will help with the war effort.

This is a postcard from around 1910 of Campau Park. This park was given to the City of the Grand Rapids by the family of Louis Campau, one of the first Europeans to lie on the Rapids. For the first few years of the South Market, farmers set up on one…

The historiography of school gardening in the United States has few contributions. The works that exist draw heavily from official documents and other primary sources which tell the story from an institutional point of view and are mainly outside the…

What follows is a discussion of the establishment of Port Oneida,
the people who settled there, and an accounting of historical
events garnered through library research and interviews with
local citizens. At the end of this special history…

his study is the second in a series for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It utilizes a number of approaches and sources--including such primary materials as manuscript schedules for the federal population and agricultural censuses, pre-emption…