Clio, Michigan
Near Frankenmuth, Michigan
Clio, Michigan carries the name of the Greek muse of history and poetry, and the story of how it got there is its own small piece of history. The settlement began in eighteen thirty-seven as Varna, named for one of its early settlers. The Flint and Pere Marquette Railway arrived in eighteen sixty-one and turned the crossroads into a real town.
Then a Civil War veteran named Colonel Hill took over a local hotel he called the Revere House and announced that he found the name Varna entirely unsuitable. He lobbied hard to rename the place after the muse Clio, daughter of Zeus. He won.
On March thirteenth, eighteen seventy-three, the Michigan Senate incorporated the Village of Clio. The old Greek muse of history has looked over this Genesee County town ever since.
