Lenawee

Adrian, MI

Chartered on March 28, 1859, Adrian College traces its origins back to a Wesleyan Methodist theological institute founded at Leoni,...

Adrian, MI

In 1855, local architect and builder O.P. Smith designed and constructed Engine House No. 1. An 1867 renovation increased the hose-drying...

Adrian, MI

Quakers from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania settled in southeastern Michigan in the early nineteenth century.

Adrian, MI

In 1863 Charles M. Croswell (Michigan governor 1877-1881) formed an association to construct a new theater.

Blissfield, MI

Located on the site of a log tavern constructed around 1839, this three-story brick hotel with semi-circular windows was built in 1875,...

Adrian, MI

At the outbreak of the Civil War in early 1861, the trustees of Adrian College offered the use of campus buildings and grounds to the...

Clinton, MI

Here stands Michigan’s oldest Methodist church building in continual use.

Clinton, MI

The Clinton Woolen Mill was a vital part of the economy of this area for over ninety years.

Adrian, MI

Lenawee County was first settled in 1824 at Tecumseh, which the territorial legislature subsequently made the county seat.

Adrian, MI

Charles Croswell helped his guardian and uncle, Daniel Hicks, build this Greek Revival house.

Tipton, MI

In 1834 Henry W. Sisson of New York settled here and built a log tavern, located on Evans Lake where the Chicago Road enters the Irish...

Blissfield, MI

The first railway in the Northwest Territory, the Erie and Kalamazoo Rail Road linked the east coast with the Michigan Territory and...

Tecumseh, MI

Musgrove Evans built this dwelling in 1826.

Blissfield, MI

This church was organized in 1829, one of the oldest Presbyterian groups in the state.

Blissfield, MI

In 1883 Blissfield banker Hiram D. Ellis (1826-1900) built this house.

Tecumseh, MI

In 1832 the federal government appropriated funds for survey and construction of a road which was to begin at La Plaisance Bay, near Monroe.

Hudson, MI

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway organized on May 27, 1869.

Adrian, MI

The Agricultural Society of Lenawee County organized and held its first fair in 1839, making it one of Michigan’s oldest county fairs.

Adrian, MI

With its parklike setting, wooded pathways and variety of monuments, Oakwood Cemetery is an outstanding Victorian Era cemetery.

Palmyra, MI

Sixteen persons from Presbyterian congregations in Tecumseh, Blissfield, and Adrian founded this church in 1836.

Clinton, MI

This chapel, completed in 1913, embodies the dream of Cemetery Superintendent George Kies, the design of Clinton-born architect Wirt...

Adrian, MI

Sacred Heart Hall, designed by Detroit architect Peter Dederichs, was built in 1922 to house Saint Joseph’s College.

Clinton, MI

The Sauk and Potawatomi Indians first traversed this main thoroughfare as a portion of the Sauk Trail.

Clinton, MI

In 1835, under the leadership of the Reverend William N. Lyster, this church was founded as St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church.

Adrian, MI

The Reverend William Hattestaedt helped organize St. John’s Lutheran Church in 1847.

Brooklyn, MI

St. Joseph’s Church originated as a missionary church during the 1850s.

Brooklyn, MI

The Reverend William Narcissus Lyster founded St. Michael and All Angels Church in 1843.

Morenci, MI

In 1930 organizers from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida formed the Taft Memorial Highway Association to promote...

Brooklyn, MI

This tavern was built around 1832.

Addison, MI

Prior Foster, an Ohio Negro, began this school “in the woods” in 1844 and four years later it was incorporated.