Clinton was established in 1831, when Jonas Gibbings and brothers Peter and Stephen Vanderburg cleared out a small area to start.

[1] Clinton started to grow in 1844 when William Rattenbury laid out the plans to begin making a village.

Clinton was established in 1831, when Jonas Gibbings and brothers Peter and Stephen Vanderburg cleared out a small area to start.

Clinton started to grow in 1844 when William Rattenbury laid out the plans to begin making a village.

[1] Clinton was the home of the highly influential 19th-century ethnologist and anthropologist Horatio Hale, who involved himself locally in real estate development and other business and educational endeavours.

A local youth, Stephen Truscott (aged 14 years at the time), was falsely convicted of the crime and sentenced to be executed.

In 1978, a protest by church members demanded that three titles be censored from high-school reading lists: Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.

Due to Clinton's central location in the county, most students are bused into the schools from surrounding areas.