This book will be available for $20 starting Sept. 25, 2026 – Find at Signature Sewing at 135 W. Michigan, Clinton, MI
Author: Sharon Scott
US-12 GARAGE SALE IS AUGUST 7TH-9TH THIS YEAR
This year the US-12 Garage Sale is the second weekend of August — 200 miles of it turn into one of the most distinctive garage-sale corridors in the country. The 2026 edition runs Friday, August 7 through Sunday, August 9 and Clinton participates. The Historical Society of Clinton will take donations towards their sale on Thursday August 6th at the American Legion Hall. If you need to donate ahead of time, please call 517-285-6218 to make arrangements.
Twenty trail towns. Nine counties. Lake Michigan on one end, the Detroit suburbs on the other. The corridor is shorter than the 127 Yard Sale and longer than the VA 100 Mile, and it has a character neither of them does: this is a heritage event as much as a yard sale, and the route itself is the draw. Anyone along the route can join the sale.
You can register your site in the Clinton area at. https://us12heritagetrail.org/garage_sale.html
Historical Society of Clinton
Sharing the Spirit of America READING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT 6PM
July 8, 2026, 5:30 PM
The Historical Society of Clinton invites you to a heartening outdoor observance of national pride—the Sharing the Spirit of America event. Held outside the Smith Kimball Community Center, this community ceremony welcomes families and neighbors to come together in reflection, music, and patriotism. Attendees should bring their own chairs or blankets; the event is approx. 45 minutes, followed by a casual picnic with some items provided while they last and also bring your own. Everyone is invited to the Smith Kimball Community Center, at 211 Tecumseh Road, Clinton, MI 49236.
Questions: Call 517-456-7198
November 25, 2025- The Historical Society of Clinton has planed a program on the oldest trees in Clinton. George Service, Terry Calhoun and Kathy Sposite are conducting a survey of the biggest/oldest trees in the Clinton area. The trees need to be at 100-200 years or over. Caleb Schlegel, lumber specialist, will help present the program along with Service and Calhoun.
Discussed will be how to determine the age and size of a tree. Stories of what that tree “might have witnessed” will also be included. If you have an old tree on your property or know of a very old tree and want Terry Calhoun to check it out , please e-mail him at gogreenterryc@gmail.com or call him at 517-403 5352. The program is at 7pm at the Clinton Township Library on Tuesday Nov. 25 and guests are welcome.
This exhibit will feature panels from the 2004 exhibition of Wirt Rowland and also some items related to that exhibit. Wirt Rowland was born and grew up in Clinton. He designed three tall buildings that provided the skyline of Detroit: The Penobscot, Buhl and Guardian. The full exhibit has been set up eight different times in Detroit, Saginaw, Clinton & Adrian. Catalogs will be on sale the Smith Kimball Community Center along with other publications by the Historical Society. During the time the exhibit is open, you can also make a visit the apartment to see the Clinton Graduation Photos, if you let the working HSC member know you would like to see them.
The Smith-Kimball Community Center is one block south of Michigan Ave. at 211 Tecumseh Road. Please join us.
Deconstructing the Past – From Farmstead to Iron Creek Nature Preserve -Program March 25th at 7pm at Clinton Township Public Librar
Join the Historical Society of Clinton for a presentation that will trace the history of an eighty-acre parcel of land near the eastern edge of the Irish Hills in the southwest corner of Manchester Township. The future Iron Creek preserve features a section of Iron Creek near Noggles Road.
When Sybil Kolon and her husband decided to donate much of their land to become a nature preserve, the vacant house on the property was an obstacle that slowed down the process but also enhanced Sybil’s desire to connect people to nature – using history. Sybil will discuss how she worked with Legacy Land Conservancy, the Manchester Area Historical Society, an Eastern Michigan University graduate student in Preservation Studies and many others to learn more about the occupants and the history of the house. The modest 1860s farmhouse was deconstructed instead of being demolished. This allowed for materials to be reused and provided more insight about the two families who lived there for over 150 years as well as details about the construction of the house.
The two presenters are: Sybil Kolon, whose family owned the property at 11703 Noggles Rd, Manchester from 1948 up to the donation to Legacy Land Conservancy; The and Laura Sutton, whose great-great grandmother, Ann Mathews Sutton and family owned the property from 1857 until 1947. Sybil Kolon’s grandparents bought it one year later.
The public is invited to the Clinton Township Public Library on Tuesday, March 25th at 7pm. Questions can be directed to Sharon Scott at
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Historic Home Tour in Clinton Dec. 14, 2024
DEVILS LAKE HISTORY BY DAN CHERRY OCT. 22ND 7PM AT CLINTON LIBRARY
The Historical Society of Clinton’s speaker on Oct. 22, 2024, will be journalist and Lenawee County historian, Dan Cherry, who will present a program on the History of Devil’s Lake and how it got its name. One of the earliest accounts of the Lake dates to the days of the indigenous tribes around the lake more than 200 years ago, and is about a very deep spot (hole). This hole was believed, in part, to have been the location of the death of a Pottawatomie chief’s daughter. Cherry now lives on the west side of the State, but has and is working as a journalist in Lenawee County for the “Daily Telegram.” He is the author of “Night of the Wind” which takes an in-depth look at the events of April 11, 1965, when two tornadoes crossed Lenawee County and Hillsdale County and in 2023, he published an updated edition.
The program is at 7pm, Tuesday October 22nd at the Clinton Township Public Library and all are invited to this occasion to hear Dan Cherry.
