Warner Homestead

Around 1855, Timothy and Lucretia Warner built this Greek Revival farmhouse. Timothy (1819-1900) migrated from Livonia, New York, to Brighton Township in 1837. He was credited with helping organize and name the township later that year. In 1841 he purchased eighty acres at this site for $384. H married Lucretia Jones (1828-1900) around 1847. Timothy co-owned the nearby Woodruff gristmill from 1867 to 1871. By 1873 the Warners had expanded their farm to nearly five hundred acres of land. Pioneer farmers Timothy and Lucretia Warner raised their six children on this homestead, which by 2021 had remained in the Warner family for six generations. Archaeological excavation, begun in 2007, has yielded thousands of artifacts that reveal information about the family´s everyday lives. In 2015, Warner family descendants restored the farmhouse to its nineteenth-century appearance. The site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a Sesquicentennial Farm.