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Smiths Creek was the county seat of St. Clair County from 1869 until April 1871, when it was removed to Port Huron. [6] The St. Clair County Sanitary Landfill is located in Smiths Creek. [citation needed] Smiths Creek is said to be where Thomas Edison was kicked off the train, because of his experiments.
Smith's Creek, Michigan, a civil township in St. Clair County This page was last edited on 29 June 2023, at 23:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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Clyde, Michigan" and "Ruby, Michigan" are also acceptable city names for the 48049 ZIP code. [ 11 ] Ruby is in the west central part of the township at Brott and Abbottsford Roads 43°02′32″N 82°36′27″W / 43.04222°N 82.60750°W / 43.04222; -82.60750
Being situated on the western banks of the St. Clair River, the city's name is taken from the river, which in turn was named for Lake Saint Clair.An expedition led by the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle named it Lac Sainte-Claire, because they entered the lake on August 12, 1679, the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi. [5]
The community was founded in about 1844 by Kerkimer Smith, an innkeeper who ran a stage coach line to Detroit. It was at first called "Smith's Corners" and was given a station named "Smith" on the Almont branch of the Pere Marquette Railway. A post office with that name was established in April 1883 and was renamed Allenton in March 1910 for ...
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As of the census [2] of 2000, there were 3,630 people, 1,467 households, and 1,007 families residing in the township. The population density was 542.9 inhabitants per square mile (209.6/km 2).