HISTORY OF YOUR HOME

 

 

Buy a historic house in bloomfield and want to know who lived there and more about the history of your home?

 

• Essex County Register of Deeds and Mortgages

• FamilySearch has some old deeds

• City Directories - can give you the names of former occupants

• Census Records - Can give you more information on the former occupants

• Newspapers to see if anything of note happened in your home

• Sanborn maps - These give you shape and location of houses and sometimes block number then you can look them up at city hall building permits sometimes original blueprints and tax records of property transfers.

• Historical Society Map page - a set of historic maps of Bloomfield from the 1906 Mueller Atlas of Essex County

• Interactive map of Bloomfield - from the Township

 

 

Our Special Collections Dept has some histories of local homes as does the Bloomfield Historical Society.

The Historical Society of Bloomfield's Facebook page is a great place to connect with experts on the history of Bloomfield.