The Fenton Museum houses an extensive genealogy room for the Fenton and surrounding area. It has cemetery records for all over Genesee County. The Historical Society is the keeper of school history for Fenton and has an area of the Museum devoted to it. The Museum is staffed by Historical Society volunteers and is open to the public on Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m., but arrangements can be made for group tours as well.

On May 3, 1858, the Reverend Henry Banwell held Fenton’s first Episcopal service for the Ladies Mite Society. The society formally organized as Saint Jude’s Episcopal Church on July 18, 1859. In 1860 members built their first church on this site, which was deeded to the parish by William and Adelaide Fenton of Flint. The present Romanesque Revival church, designed by Pratt and Koeppe of Bay City, was completed in 1893.

Many of Fenton’s early developers, politicians, businessmen, and veterans are interred in this cemetery, which was established in 1834. Clark Dibble, who made the first land purchase in present-day Fenton in 1834, and Dustin Cheney, who accompanied him to Fenton, are buried here with their families. Phillip McOmber Sr., the first Genesee County prosecutor, and Daniel LeRoy, Michigan’s first attorney general, are also interred here.

In March 1837 the Reverend Washington Jackson formed a Methodist congregation in Dibbleville (present-day Fenton) at the home of Levi Warren. Warren donated land and the first church was built in 1853.

Constructed soon after the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad reached town in 1855, this hotel has been a favorite resting and dining spot for over a century. It was said in 1883 that the guests were “entertained in a style unsurpassed in many large cities.”

Clark Dibble came here from New York State in 1834 and laid claim to forty acres of government land. Known as Dibbleville, this area was Fenton’s original business district. It encompasses the A. J. Phillips Library, two churches and two commercial blocks.

The A.J. Phillips Fenton Museum is an original building from 1900. AJ Phillips' heirs donated the building to the city in 1906. Most recently, the building housed the Fenton Library (now the Jack R. Winegarden Library) until it moved to its present location in the old Post Office.