Museums, galleries & stages / Highland Township
Highland Township Public Library
Highland's township library, serving the community since the 1850s and tucked into a pine grove above Downey Lake since 2002.
01 / The story of this place
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The library's oldest known record dates to 1856: local historian Clara Mae Beach found an ornate handwritten book ledger in the township archives. The library shut down during the Civil War, and the same ledger was then used to log stray livestock and ear marks. By 1915 it held 865 books and was open two hours a week with Nellie Keller as librarian. It later lived in the 1890 town house on East Livingston Road and, from 1982, in the former Highland United Methodist Church. In 2002 it moved into its current building on land that once belonged to the Beach family.
- Stone fireplace reading nook in the adult area
- Milford Times issues from 1871 to 1913 are searchable online
- Scanned Milford Times microfilm from 1914 to 2017 on an in-house viewing and printing station
- Homebound delivery for patrons who can't make it in
- Library board meets publicly the first Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m.
A closer look
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Sources & fact check · Checked: 2026-10-23
An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
03 / Events
Events at this place
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Nov 5, 2026, 6:30 PMLecture: Becoming Hockeytown – The Detroit Red Wings at 100
Jeremy Dimick, Director of Collections & Curatorial at the Detroit Historical Society, gives a talk on a century of Detroit Red Wings history on Thursday, November 5, at 6:30 p.m. at the Highland Township Public Library in Highland Township. Admission is free.
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