Walking Tour-Stream Outlot-Walking Tour
(West Side of Street)

The "Outlot", the property on either side of the stream/wastegate from the mill pond to Park Lake. Originally Lot 2 of Block 18 & 19 of Nelson W. Clark's Plat of the Village in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township. Now Lot 18 on the west side of Main St. & Lot 34 on the east side of Main St. or Outlot A & B.

The ownership of this property passed with the ownership of the Clarkston mill property as it did when Butler Holcomb sold the mill to Jeremiah & Nelson W. Clark.

Official Property Description:

• Lots 1 & 2 (?) Block 18 of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village in the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
• Lot 18 of the Supervisor's Replat of the Northwestern Addition.

Significant Property History:

[A Synopsis Of Property Transfers Derived From Abstracts
(when available) And Periodic Changes In Ownership Or
Assessed Value Derived From Township Tax Records]

• Note: All the properties currently located in the Historic District were originally part of a tract registered by Butler Holcomb with the federal government on October 22, 1831. Thus, abstracts for these properties, when they exist, show the original transfer to be from the United States to Butler Holcomb and may also include references to then President Andrew Jackson.
• 1832 Butler Holcomb, the Northeast 1/4 , the Southeast 1/4 , the east 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 and the east 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section. 20.
• 1835 Butler Holcomb to Jeremiah, the south part of the east 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20.
• 1839 Jeremiah Clark to Nelson W. Clark, one equal undivided half of the south part of the east 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20.
• 1842 Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village.
• 1850 Nelson W. Clark
• 1855 Nelson W. Clark, Lots 1 & 2.
  Hirst & Stiff, "race only".
• 1885 J. P. Carran, the north 1/2 of Lot 2, assessed value 420.
• 1888 J. P. Carran, as above, $40.
• 1899 John West, as above, $40.
• 1902 Oliver Demund, the east 1/2 of Lot 2 & the north 1/2 of Lot 3, assessed value $450.
• 1910 Holcomb Bros.
• 1914 J. Deacon.
• 1915 Oakland Power Co.
• 1917 Edwin Denby.
• 1918 Oakland Power Co.
• 1920 Edwin Denby. 1927 Detroit Edison.
• 1935 Village of Clarkston.
• 1940 Ford.
• 1950 Hawk Tool, Lot 18.
• 1954 Hawk Tool & Engineering, Lot 18.