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 Mrs. Ella Benjamin Interior of the Benjamin home on Woodward Ave. Renovations and Collections October, 2009 Curator- Muriel Versagi Fire Station Renovations Renovations at the Webster Fire Station are well underway. New bathrooms, barrier free access, and a lift, being installed in the tower, between the first and second floors should be completed by the end of October. After a good “fire hall” cleaning the historical collections, now being packed up at the Churchill School Museum, will be ready to fill their new space at the station. To view pre-construction photos of the station go to “Northwood Fire Station” . Scroll to the bottom of the page. 
 Elsie Benjamin Benjamin family 1906 at the Benjamin home on Woodward Ave. Expanding our Collections New items keep coming in at the Churchill Museum. Descendants of several pioneer families have responded generously to our “Scrapbook Project” promoted on the ROHS web page. Prompted by our appeal for materials related to early Royal Oak families, Betty Hawkins Emmert of Bloomfield Hills, and Jean Blodgett of Farmington, brought us a wealth of family photos and documents. We now have a good start on building up our Royal Oak family archives, new material on the Benjamin, Parker, Hawkins and Blodgett families, to mention only a few, will keep us busy cataloguing and researching for weeks. Photos, manuscripts, diaries, legal documents and a bundle of personal letters written between the early to late 1800's, (between Blodgett, Parker, and Benjamin family members) are being transcribed, scanned, preserved and archived by museum volunteers. Based on this new material we have begun to construct a genealogy of Royal Oak’s earliest pioneer families. To read a family letter written in 1835 go to "Collections" Please visit our “Scrapbook Page” to find out how you and your family can contribute to preserving Royal Oak history. To volunteer or to schedule a museum visit, contact Muriel Versagi, curator of the Royal Oak Historical Society Museum, at 248.439.1510 or mversagi@versagivoice.com Return to Current News |