Williamston Museum at the Depot

06/04/2026

What we are working on in the Community Newsletter for Friday. The entire Williamston Jubilee schedule, an interview with the owner of the fitness shop Clearly Fit, a Hornet Sports round-up, Then and Now, How to apply to be on the city council, CADL Summer Reading, the new WHS and WMS principals, Farmer's Market preview and so on and so on. Sign up with the link below. Thank you.

06/03/2026

Wayback Wednesday. The Today section of the Lansing State Journal of November 15, 1986. The depot, a mom and her kids, a man and inside of the old Felpausch Food Store and three of their high school employees. 40 years ago? Egad!

06/02/2026

The front walk past our museum at 369 West Grand River Avenue, as planted by the Williamston Red Cedar Garden Club. Thank you for your beautifying efforts around town. Read more about the Garden Club in this Friday's Community Newsletter.

06/01/2026

Modern Monday. Our wetland behind the museum was visited this afternoon by this lonely deer. They must not have known the museum isn't open on Mondays.

05/31/2026

Go and visit Rick at our booth at the Williamston Farmers Market today.

05/29/2026

Flashback Friday. Howard Liverance was a star pitcher at Williamston HS and then became a star pitcher for the University of Michigan. He was later named captain and started the first game in their new baseball stadium (now Fisher Field) in Ann Arbor. He had a brief minor league career with the Kalamazoo Kazoos of the Michigan-Ontario League in 1924. He later worked for over three decades at the corporation offices of K-Mart and lived in the Detroit suburbs.

05/28/2026

The newsletter is about ready to go for Friday morning. This week will include more photos and a story on our Memorial Day event in town, a city council member stepping down, a round-up of Hornets Spring sports action, Then and Now, a look into the story behind the Quilt gallery downtown and the deep local connection at the Wooden Cricket store, an area events calendar, museum news and a local column and much more. You may visit our website or sign up here.

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05/28/2026

A night shot of Grand River Avenue in front of the museum last week. This is looking east and into the downtown district. Photo by Mitch Lutzke, museum president.

05/27/2026

Wayback Wednesday. Williamston was the home to many coal mining operations over the years-both vertical/horizontal shafts and open pits. The mining sites were at the east end of High Street, also east of Mill Street, also south of the railroad tracks near Mill Street, and at the old clay pit along East Grand River (now Williamston Estates). Here are Williamston coal miners and their sons in an open pit in town. From the photo collection of Linda Lechler Siciliano-whose ancestor, Thomas Jenkins, owned and operated the coal mine on High Street in the 1910s.

05/26/2026

Memorial Day 2026. Another photo from the parade on Monday. Photo by museum board member Logan O'Neil.