Step back towards a different time...pick any time in history for our county...and you'll see interesting documents, collections, and stories about the people and places of Lenawee County, Michigan.
Read about the impact our County had on other national events. Learn how determination shaped the individuals who made a difference in our part of the world.
The archives at the Lenawee County Historical Society offer thousands of documents relating to business, government, religion, education, transportation, the military, prominent citizens, and many other subjects of local interest.
Visit us soon! We're located at 110 E. Church St., Adrian MI
The Lenawee Historical Museum receives donations of all sorts of historical, antique, and just plain old books and pictures to sell for the purpose of raising operating funds for the museum. Many of the books are duplicates of items already in the museum’s collection. We also have comic books and bound science fiction magazines for sale. Portraits and artwork are often removed from their frames for preservation and storage, leaving the frames to be sold.
The Lenawee Historical Society will hold its first frame and book sale at the Lenawee Historical Museum. Picture frames of all shapes and sizes, ranging from 5”x7” to large wall frames will be available. Frames from bare-bones basic to the carved and ornate, from simple rectangular to oval with curved glass, will be sold at very reasonable prices. Mark your calendars for Friday and Saturday, November 6 & 7, 2026.
The sale will take place in the Frazier Auditorium on the second floor of the museum from 10 am until 2 pm on Friday and Saturday, November 6 and 7. Accepted methods of payment are cash, check, or credit card, and, of course, donations, although not expected, are always welcome.
If you are recently retired and looking for something to do with your time and have a love for local history, look no further!
The Lenawee Historical Museum has openings for volunteers to serve as tour guides (it isn’t rocket science and we will train you), to work with newsletter and publication layout in Word, to clean and repair historic artifacts, and to generally help around the museum.
If you can dedicate four or more hours a week, we would love to hear from you. You can contact the museum by phone at 517-265-6071, by email at lenaweemuseum@yahoo.com, or by stopping in on any Tuesday, Friday or Saturday between 10 am and 2 pm. We look forward to adding you to our corps of volunteers.
On July 4, 2026, our nation commemorated and celebrated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. While the momentous events of the Revolutionary War and the foundational preparations leading up to the establishment of our American Constitutional Republic occurred primarily along the Eastern Seaboard, our own Lenawee County has a Revolutionary War connection, in that several veterans of the conflict are buried here.
For a listing of military veterans known to be buried locally, see the MIGenWeb website
The Lenawee County Family Researchers (LCFR), our local genealogical society, in collaboration with the local Lucy Wolcott Barnum Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), are formulating plans to honor all American patriots buried in Lenawee County cemeteries and are soliciting the community’s assistance in patriot identification. Patriots may include not only any military veterans not already on the established list, but also non-military individuals who played a role on the Colonial side during the conflict for American independence, such as wives of veterans, pro-independence clergymen, colonial politicians, and those who supplied provisions to support the war effort, for instance.
Anyone having knowledge of such Revolutionary War patriots buried here locally is requested to please contact LCFR Secretary Julia Klink at Phone 517-436-3435 / E-mail jklink@sandcreektelco.com with pertinent details, such as the patriot’s name, type of service to the American cause, and their cemetery burial location, with a cutoff deadline for incoming information of February 2026. Any such community assistance rendered will be sincerely appreciated.
