These records consists of 55 volumes of tax rolls of Moorland Township, Muskegon County, Michigan between 1861 and 1930; two volumes (1893, 1896) of visitation records to Muskegon County schools by Tom J. G. Bolt, Commissioner of Schools; and a volume of tax assessments for Muskegon County, recorded in 1902 when Bolt was County Supervisor.

Bolt's school visitation records include data on students (enrollment, attendance); teachers (name, qualifications, performance); school buildings and equipment (structure, seating capacity, heating and ventilation, educational materials, condition of grounds, location of wells); and curriculum.