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
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.
The Lenawee Historical Society accepts donations of used and antiquarian books. Books related to Lenawee County history are retained in its collection for access by the public. These typically include plat books, atlases, school yearbooks, books about events in the county, biographies of historically significant county residents or businesses, and books written by local authors. In addition, the Society receives donations of used or antiquarian books that are either unrelated to county history or that duplicate books already in the collection. These are often sold to raise funds for the operation of the museum.
The Society currently has dozens of books for sale and is looking for a library-style book cart on which to stock and display them for bibliophiles in search of such books. The donation of a new or used book cart, or funds to be used toward the purchase such a cart, would be greatly appreciated.
If you are able to help in this endeavor, please contact the museum at lenaweemuseum@yahoo.com or by phone at 517-265- 6071.
The Lenawee Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization funded exclusively through donations and society membership dues.
On July 4, 2026, our nation will commemorate and celebrate 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.
