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Clarenceville

In the extreme southeastern corner of the township is a small cluster of buildings known as Clarenceville. It lies on the line of the Detroit and Howell plank-road, and it was to this thoroughfare, known in the early days as the Grand river military road, that the hamlet owes its existence. Its commencement was the building of a tavern at that point by Stephen Jennings, in the year 1836, for the accommodation of the travel over the road. He also opened a store there soon after. During all the days of staging over this road Jennings' tavern was a regular and favorite stopping-place, - the sixteen-mile station out from Detroit.

Clarenceville contains one general store, one wagon-shop, and two blacksmith-shops, and the hotel now kept by Milton G. Botsford; but the travel which supported it in the old time is no longer there, and its consideration as a public-house has departed with the stage-lines which created it.