Lenawee County Historical Museum

About:

The Lenawee County Historical Museum and Archives is free and open to the public, Tuesday-Saturday 10am-2pm. The archives offer thousands of documents relating to business, government, religion, education, railroads, the military, the Grange, the Underground Railroad, prominent citizens, and many other subjects of local interest. The photo archives contains photographs and postcards of places, people, and events in Lenawee County.

Our History

The Lenawee County Historical Society began in 1868 in Tecumseh when General Joseph Brown organized the Lenawee County Pioneer Society. It was later known as the River Raisin Historical Society. In 1923 the Society was reorganized as the Lenawee County Historical Society. The Lenawee Public Museum and the Society merged in 1968 to form the Lenawee County Historical Society, Inc.

Our Purpose

The purpose of this society is to aid in the discovery, collection, and preservation of every variety of material illustrative of the history of Lenawee County and the State of Michigan, including but not limited to: letters, diaries, journals, memorandums, pioneer reminiscences, newspapers, account books, school and church registers, commemorative, addresses, genealogies and biographies, photographs, pictures and paintings, relics, material objects illustrative of the life of pioneers, maps, histories, and records of Lenawee County and its cities, towns, villages and institutions and to own and/or operate on a non-profit basis facilities for the display and renovation thereof for educational purposes.