Resources

Discover what the Terry Wantz Center has to offer!

An automated book scanning machine branded with 'Z Zeutschel,' containing open books, a computer monitor displaying scanned pages, and foot pedals.

Zeutschel Overhead Scanner OS 12002 Advanced

This wonderful resource, located in the T.W. Historical Research Center has the ability many possibilities. It digitizes books, A2 newspapers and large format documents (certificates, drawings, maps). Automatic opening of the glass plate after scanning.

Please inquire within the center for personal use and pricing.


The Terry Wantz Center would like to thank the Fremont Area Community Foundation for their generous grant support to the Paper to Cloud digitizing project.

Seal of Newaygo County, Michigan, featuring a deer and pine tree inside a circle.

Register of Deeds

The Terry Wantz Historical Research Center and the Newaygo County Register of Deeds have formed a cooperative partnership that makes it easier to access county land records through genealogical ties when one is unsure of where or how to begin looking for them.

Group of five men with horses and dogs, standing near a pile of logs on a wagon, in a forest clearing, black-and-white photo from the early 20th century.
Books on a bookshelf about British history, with titles on colonial policy, colonization of North America, and genealogical publishing.

Books at the Center

Our Center has endless resources from books, both biographical and autobiographical. More specifically, you can find local autobiographical books on the subject of local railroads, post offices, lumbering and Fremont beginnings of 1850 to 1920. Along with books, there are over 2,000 + digital files in the centers archives, too.

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SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS