Clintonville is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Oakland County in the
U.S. state of
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
. The community is located within
Waterford Township. As an unincorporated community, Clintonville has no legally defined area or population statistics of its own, and it uses the Waterford 48328
ZIP Code.
It was located along the
Clinton River on what today is Walton Boulevard between Clintonville Road and Sashabaw Road. The village was built on the shores of
Wormer Lake (27.5 acres) and
Schoolhouse Lake (37 acres).
History
Clintonville was first settled in 1830 by Samuel C. Munson. That same year, Munson built a
gristmill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...
and
saw mill at Clintonville on Pond Lake (now
Lake Oakland), just north of where the Clinton River meets Walton Boulevard today.
Clintonville was platted in 1847.
Early residents
Clintonville land tract owners in 1872 include:
*John Linderman (1794-1877)
*Marcus Riker (1800-1884)
*W. Walker
*John Van Campen (1824-1910)
*J. Bogardus
*Mrs. Stuart
*B. Greening
*J. Greening
Post Office
Clintonville had a post office from 1898 until 1902.
School
Clintonville School No.7 was the first school in Clintonville. It was built on the banks of Schoolhouse Lake on what today is 3101 Walton Blvd. in Waterford, Michigan near Clintonville Road. The school building still stands today.
[http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/mgdl/pdfmaps/CountySchools/SD_BYCO_esize_OAKLAND%20COUNTY.pdf]
Streets
In 1872, east-west streets in Clintonville were Lafayette Street, Main Street, Columbia Street, Darkman Street, Margaret Street and Elizabeth Street.
North-south streets were Van Buren Street, Jackson Street, Washington Street, Franklin Street, Mill Street, and Pontiac Street.
References
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Unincorporated communities in Oakland County, Michigan
Unincorporated communities in Michigan
Metro Detroit
1830 establishments in Michigan Territory
Populated places established in 1830