Ottawa County, Michigan Online Historical Directories
Ottawa County, Michigan Online Historical Directories
Expand your research by checking out the Michigan Online Historical Newspapers here.
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Grand Rapids City Directory, Polk, Murphy, & Co., 1874-5 - $ (Ancestry)
- includes business directories for:
- Coopersville, pages 347-8/images 208-9
- Grand Haven, pages 345-7/images 207-8
- Nunica, page 348/image 209
- Spring Lake, page 347/image 208
Grand Rapids City Directory, Polk, Murphy, & Co., 1874-5 - Free (Hathi Trust Digital Library)
- includes business directories for:
- Coopersville, pages 347-8
- Grand Haven, pages 345-7
- Nunica, page 348
- Spring Lake, page 347
Ottawa County Atlas, Ogle, 1912 - Free (Hathi Trust Digital Library)
- contains images of township maps with landowners' names
- contains patrons directory in the back
Ottawa County Atlas, Ogle, 1912 - Free (Internet Archive)
- contains images of township maps with landowners' names
- contains patrons directory in the back
Ottawa County Rural Directory, Farm Journal Illustrated, 1918 - Free (DistantCousin - available through the Wayback Machine - may "disappear" with time)
- includes Coopersville, Zeeland, and the county business directory
Are the directories you're looking for not available online?
Check out WorldCat to find printed or microfilmed directories for Allendale, Coopersville, Grand Haven, Holland, Hudsonville, Jenison, Spring Lake, West Olive, Zeeland, and Ottawa County.
They may be available through inter-library loan, or the library that holds them may be able to do lookups and send you copies of pertinent pages.
The Library of Congress holds a number of Michigan business, city, reverse (crisscross and street address), telephone, and other directories.
Learn how to access these materials in person in Washington, D.C. through this link, or via a researcher here.