The Williamston Theatre received the American Theatre Wing's National Theatre Company Award in 2014 source
Community character
Williamston is a small city on the Red Cedar River in eastern Ingham County, settled in 1834 and platted in 1845 by James M. Williams, who named the town Williamstown after himself before it lost the letter w; it incorporated as a village in 1871 and as a city on April 1, 1945, and is known for the antique and specialty shops of its historic downtown source
Williamston Theatre
Professional theatre operating under an Actors' Equity Association contract at 122 South Putnam Street in downtown Williamston, founded in 2004 and producing live theatre year-round since 2006 source
Williamston Downtown Historic District
Commercial historic district covering the first blocks of East and West Grand River Avenue and the first block of South Putnam Street, with 8 acres and 49 buildings, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 2012, featuring Italianate, Second Empire, Late Victorian, and Commercial Brick architecture from the 1870s onward source
Sun Theatre
Family-owned single-screen cinema at 150 West Grand River Avenue, built by the Montgomery family in 1947 and showing first-run films; the community raised funds in 2013 to convert it to digital projection source
McCormick Park
City park north of downtown on the Red Cedar River with two play structures, the American Legion Memorial Band Shell, a baseball diamond, pickleball courts, sand volleyball, a paved pathway, two picnic shelters, and a historic gazebo; it serves as the starting point of the Red Cedar River Water Trail source
Memorial Park
Riverfront park with nearly a quarter mile of natural frontage on the Red Cedar River next to the Williamston Community Schools sports fields, linked to neighborhoods south of the river by a pedestrian bridge source
