Located at the corner of Park and Jones streets, the last mineral water well in Mount Clemens is housed in an unassuming shed. Owner Lois Lombardo intends to turn the site into a new bath house.

Photo by Dean Vaglia

MOUNT CLEMENS — After about 50 years, the industry that put Mount Clemens on the map will return.

Known as the “Bath City” due to its historic mineral bath industry, the Mount Clemens Planning Commission approved the city’s first dedicated mineral bathhouse since the 1970s on July 8.

“It’s really exciting,” said Lois Lombardo, owner of the last mineral water well in Mount Clemens.. “It feels like this yearlong dream of building and doing this bathhouse from when I acquired the well. It’s like the big next step and once we got approved, I was like, ‘Wow, this really going to

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