Clinton Common:
Clinton became an organized town in 1860 but people have been living there for 300 years. Clinton became a thriving cotton mill town early in it's history with many four story brick factories. Today there are many small plastic factories.
Fountain in the middle of the common.
View across the common.
View of the common center down the east side.
View of the common center looking looking west. Note the trash barrel at the lower center of the picture. There is no trash in any of these pictures. Trash barrels are spread around most villages and people use them. Most villages and town have fines for littering, usually about about 200 rmb for littering or spitting in a public ares. It's ok to spit on a street.
World War I memorial. The sides of the memorial lists the names of the soldiers from Clinton that died in that war.
Civil War memorial. The memorial lists the names soldiers from the town that died in the war.
The common is surrounded by roads and across the street are many important buildings. There are six churches across the street that face the common. They are all Christian churches but different denominations. They all get along though.
There are still some houses across the street from the common. This house is about as old as the common.
An old house which was once a church. It is now offices.
Town offices building.
One the town library for many years. A new modern library has been built. This building has now been converted to town offices.
