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In 1818, James Fulton became the sole owner of the land here and platted the village, naming it St. Clair, after the lake adjacent to it.  The county was created on March 28, 1820, and his village was named the county seat.  He met with financial difficulties and in 1824 sold out to Thomas Palmer and David C. McKinistry, of Detroit, who replatted it and renamed it Palmer.  On February 14, 1826 it was given a post office named St. Clair, and the office retained that name all the time that the village bore the name of Palmer.  On April 7, 1846, the legislature restored the name St. Clair to the village.  Incorporated as a village in 1850 and as a city in 1858.  The lake was first named St. Clare by LaSalle who entered it on August 12, 1879, the feast day of Ste. Clare, and the spelling was later changed to St. Clair for General Arthur St. Clair, the first American governor of the Northwest Territory.

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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