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Past Lives of the Eagle Tavern

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Originally constructed in the early 1830s as a stagecoach stop along the Detroit-to-Chicago road, the Eagle Tavern was the first structure Henry Ford acquired for Greenfield Village. Today, it is historically interpreted as an 1850 tavern.

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Eagle Tavern at its Original Site, Clinton, Michigan, February 2, 1925

Photographic print

This tavern, constructed 1831-2 in Clinton, Michigan, was originally a stagecoach stop on the Detroit-to-Chicago road. In 1927, Henry Ford purchased the run-down building from resident Ella Smith -- the daughter of Walter Smith, who had run the hostelry as Smith's Hotel between 1868 and 1896. Moved to Greenfield Village, the restored and renamed Clinton Inn opened in 1929.