Clinton Township Historical Commission

Clinton Township, Michigan

The current members of the Clinton Township Historical Commission are:

Jim Hungerford, Chairman
Jim Kowalski
Dr. Carl Becker
Eleonora Kukuk
Gerald Oehmke
Terry Nieman
Maxwell Heiderer
Frank Valdez
Clinton/Macomb Library liason Jeanine Taylor

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GREATER CLINTON TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Go to http://clintontwphistory.org for more information. Look at the CALENDAR section for schedules. The deadline to order flowers in the annual flower sale is nearly here.

The Greater Clinton Township Historical Society is proud to announce their next presentation, "The Mt. Clemens Spa Industry", presented by reknown Macomb County historians, Don Green and Cindy Donahue. For more than a century, the world's elite flocked to Mt. Clemens to soothe their bodies in the ancient healing waters of the Michigan Basin. With 34 essential minerals, Mt. Clemens seawater contains the highest mineral content of any body of water in the world. Join us as Don and Cindy present their fabulous multimedia presentation on this famous spa industry! The presentation will be held on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Clinton-Macomb Public Library (Main Branch, Romeo Plank and Canal Roads) in Clinton Township. No reservations are necessary and light refreshments will be served. Actual Mt. Clemens spa products will also be available for sale.

Photo Credits

The photographs were mainly taken by J. Kowalski, J. Hungerford , A. Hungerford, R. Mink, and the videos are from C. Dewandeler.

The History of Clinton Township

The History of Clinton Township Michigan

On July 22, 1782 David Zeisberger and his followers founded the first settlement in Clinton Township. He described the site of "New Gnadenhutten" in his diary, "founded on this side of the river a fine place to lay out a town on a height ... between the river and the height, there are many springs with many separate little brooks that flow into the river and have exceedingly good water. The land on the site of the town is so sandy ... the lowlands are very rich with heavy timber. We chose this place before all others for our town site ... heavily laden boats can go even to the fork, a half-mile higher up ... and canoes can go much further. We are glad and thankful to have found such a good and healthy a spot for a town site nothing was lacking. We found traces that long ago an Indian town must have stood on this place."

Clinton Township Historical Village

This is a panorama of the Clinton Township Civic Center, and the Historical Village. It also shows the Clinton-Macomb Public Library.

Click and drag on the picture to look around. Please tell the web master if it doesn't work on your computer.

Using this site

Doing Searches Be sure to read the article that follows to learn how to get the most from this site. It involves typing words in the search bar. Try MAPS,TOUR, or ARCHAEOLOGY to see what comes up. This is new... go to the LINKS and check out Superior Views of the Past!

Thomas Dean

This is the exciting account of Thomas Dean.

He traveled in 1817 from New York to the Ohio River and northeast on the Wabash and eventually to Detroit. There are 77 pages to the series.
To see them all type "dean" in the search bar. With luck they will be in the proper order.

p1 1817 Journal Thomas Dean

Links

The following links may be of interest to those who seek information about local and Michigan history as well as general topics. PENNY POSTCARDS was recently added to the links. So was Detroit Pix (memories from the past) It is worth a look. June 9 2007, a new link was added.Early Michigan History. This is good reading and should keep you up at night. The Greater Clinton Township Historical Society website is back on line. Keep checking for updates. Look at the calendar. http://clintontwphistory.org/

Canal Park

The site of Canal Park, which was dedicated on July 8, 1998, is a heavily wooded flood plain that contains a portion of the original Clinton and Kalamazoo Canal along with the remains of several dams. This will be a passive park that provides walking trails with a tour of the river and old canal bed.

Visitors coming to this park will be able to enjoy the peace and beauty of the forest and maybe catch a glimpse of the deer, foxes, blue herons, hawks and other wildlife that share this nature refuge.