Download or read book Tales Along Clinton Trail written by Eaton County Historical Society (Mich.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clinton Trail (now M-50) was laid out early as a road from Jackson to Grand Rapids, a diagonal road running from the southeast to the northwest of Eaton County. It was an old Indian trail that was followed when the government marked it when settlers came early in the 19th century to Eaton County.