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​Welcome to the KCHS Website

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The monthly meetings of Kalamazoo County Historical Society are on the FIRST MONDAY of each month.  Meetings will be held at the Portage District Library and will start at 7pm. The next meeting of the 2019-2020 program year will be held on:
April 6th, 2020
7pm
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 KCHS Programs Cancelled for Remainder of the Year - Stay Home and Stay Healthy

 Our fall programs were scheduled to begin in October and we were planning on a special speaker to kick off the year.   Linda Keane, the author of the recent historical non-fiction book, The House on Lowell Street, will be rescheduled sometime after the first of the year.  
 
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Annual Dues Reminder

Annual dues for the Kalamazoo County Historical Society are now due. The KCHS fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. Dues are still $10 per person and $17.50 for a family. Please bring your dues to the annual meeting or send them to Lynn Smith Houghton, Kalamazoo Historical Society, PO Box 49005-1623, Kalamazoo MI 49005. Checks should be made payable to the Kalamazoo County Historical Society.
 

​Annual Meeting of the Kalamazoo County Historical Society

The Annual Meeting of the Kalamazoo County Historical Society was held on Monday evening, October 7th, at 7:00 pm at the Portage District Library. The election of officers and members of the KCHS Board took place at the meeting. The following officers and board members were nominated and elected: Steve Rossio, President; Mary Ellen Agar, Vice President and Webmaster;  Lynn Smith Houghton, Treasurer; and Sharon Carlson, Secretary, and board members Tom Dietz, Diane Durian, Donna Odom, Beth Timmerman, and William Braaksma.
 

KCHS Inclement Weather Policy

Meetings of the Kalamazoo County Historical Society will be canceled due to inclement weather when the  Portage Public Schools are cancelled.