title: Historic Charlton Park
text: # Historic Charlton Park
  
  Historic Charlton Park is a historically oriented local facility and museum in Barry County, Michigan, that sits on 310 acres (1.3 $km^2)$ along the Thornapple River.
  
  The village is made up of a number of nineteenth and early-twentieth century structures that have been brought together from around the county to recreate a Michigan village from the turn of the 20th century. Buildings include a lawyer's home, blacksmith shop, bank and insurance office, barber shop, inn and stagecoach stop, Church, carpenter/cooper shop, carriage house, general store, hardware store, school, printshop, cabin, sawmill, and the Hastings Township Hall.
  
  Besides the historic village and museum, there is a swimming beach on the Thornapple River, along which the park is located.
  
  * Built in 1848 was used as a stagecoach stop.
  * Built in 1869. Children attended the Lee School until 1923.
  * Barber Shop - built between 1889-1907.
  * Constructed in 1852. William E. Upjohn started the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co.
  * Carlton Center Church built in 1885.
  * Built in the late 1880s, this house is the home of the village seamstress.
  * Hastings Township Hall in use until 1988.
  * Blacksmith Shop - donated in 1968.
  * Carpenter Shop
  * Built by John and Rachel Dillon in Maple Grove in 1858.
  * Built by Irving Charlton. Completed in 1950.
  * Hastings Mutual Insurance Co. operated in this building from 1908-1924.
  