Harrison

The Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Company platted this area in 1879 and presented a parcel to the county. This site became the Clare County seat in November of that same year. Named for President William Henry Harrison, the village was incorporated in 1885 and officially became a city in 1891. Harrison was noted at the turn of the century for its thriving lumber mills. Prominent lumbermen in the vicinity included Frederick Miller, Ephraim B. Rought and William and Samuel Wilson, who built and operated several mills on the Budd Lake shoreline.