Welcome to the official website for the Swartz Creek Area Historical Society!  We encourage you to check out our links and to learn about us.

Enjoy these photos of early Swartz Creek and days gone by!

Waschas Market at Miller & Holland Roads

Paving Holland Drive aproximately 1928.

Parade 1961 - Businesses L to R Hotel, Spillanes Gas Station, Swartz Creek Hardware, Angelbeck Cleaners, Spillane Hardware, Williams Drug Store, June's Restaurant, Herb Cities Service Station

First ambulance owned by Bendle Funeral Home. Check out the leaded glass.

Inside Bank of Swartz Creek approximately 1932.
Right cashier W. L. Miller, Grandfather of Bill Miller of Gaines Township.



 The south side of Miller Rd. in the early 1940's. The businesses from left to right are the Hotel,
Spillane's Standard Gas, Pharris Barber Shop, Swartz Creek Hardware, Burleson Dry Cleaners,
Spillane and Son Hardware, Hoag's Drugs, Dr Clark's Building and W.J. Blue Mobil gas Station.

Treasure Island in McInallys Hardware in Rankin dated 1967.  An antique shop in now at the site.

Saint Mary’s Catholic Church – Miller & 3^rd Street - church group

Saint Mary’s Catholic Church – Miller & 3^rd Street

Miller Barn - around 1907

Putt-Putt Golf Course – west side of S. Morrish @ the creek

Parade moving eastward – July 4^th – about 1905

Swartz Creek Depot – Train heading towards Flint

Rankin Bar – now the Police station

Begole School – located at Elms & Bristol

Hurd School – located at Morrish & Beecher

Swartz Creek Hotel – located at Miller & Morrish

Nancy Williams, Governor Mennen Williams and Bill Crapo with prize Hereford

Creek Tavern, Bank of Swartz Creek, Swartz Creek 5 & 10 Store

Dr. Houston in street – old Seeley Drug Building at Main & Miller – now Morrish

Friendship Club originally Swartz Creek High School – built in 1891

Creamline Dairy Barn – still standing on Bristol Rd. between Morrish and Elms

1900’s Crapo farm Hereford auction

Crapo Mansion – after fire in 1976

Old Calkins School – being remodeled as Clayton Township Hall in 1966

Calkin's Barn, later donated to Crossroads Village.

           First Depot located north of the RR tracks 50 yards west of Morrish Rd.

         Methodist Episcopal Church built in 1911 to replace the Wooden structure which was stuck by lightening in 1910 and burned.

       Unloading lumber from a boxcar for the Elevator and Lumber Co.

         Walch House, located at 8298 Miller, was built by Mr. Howes, in the mid 1870's, sold to Mr. Fairchild who sold it to Mr. and Mrs. Walch in the early 1940's.

Crapo Gravel Company, now Winchester Lake on VanVleet Rd.

Crapo Farm workers planting a field west of Seymour Rd. near Young St. today.

Otterburn depot was located west of the RR tracks and south of Miller Rd. adjacent to the Genesee Valley Golf Club parking lot.

School busses parked behind Mary Crapo late 1930's or early 1940's

Original train depot destroyed by fire, date of fire unknown

Fletcher School class of 1939

Fletcher School located at Seymour and Grand Blanc Roads

Town Tavern Fire on Labor day 1960, Bank of Swartz Creek at right

Swartz Creek Theater and Sporting Goods

Rankin Elementary school located at Grand  Blanc and Jennings Rds.

Don's Service Station

Duffield School

Swartz Creek's First Store

Fortino's Market

Lyons school was located on Beecher Rd. between Nichols and Duffield Rds.

Downtown Swartz Creek

M-78, now known as Miller Rd. looking east

Swartz Creek Hotel

Downtown Swartz Creek

M-78, now known as Miller Rd. looking east

Centennial Celebration in 1936, held in downtown Swartz Creek

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