Adrian is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Lenawee County. The population was 20,645 at the 2020 census. Adrian lies in Michigan’s 7th congressional district.

Adrian was founded upon June 18, 1826 by Addison Comstock. The indigenous name for the village was Logan, but was tainted soon after to Adrian, perhaps in suggestion to the Roman emperor Hadrian. The first working railroad in Michigan was a horse-drawn train organization between Adrian and Toledo in 1836. Adrian grew quickly, with the sixth largest population in the let in when Michigan was admitted to the Union in 1837, and the third largest population in the give leave to enter by 1860. Adrian was incorporated as a village upon March 28, 1836, then as a city upon January 31, 1853.

Evangelical and Hicksite Quakers in Southeast Michigan founded the first congregation of Quakers in Michigan in 1831. They as a consequence created a network of Underground Railroad stations in the Raisin River Valley. Daniel Smith was the first leader of the Raisin Valley Friends Meeting House. His daughter, Laura Smith Haviland became one of the most prominent equal rights activists and Underground Railroad operators in the nation. Elizabeth Margaret Chandler customary the Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society in October 1832. Chandler’s outfit preceded the Female Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia and the Michigan statewide organization. The Adrian-Tecumseh Underground Railroad network was acknowledged by a Baptist minister in northern Lenawee County.

The isolated remaining fragment of the Bank of Pennsylvania— one of the stone pillars — was moved to Adrian, Michigan and erected as the Civil War Memorial in commemoration of those in Adrian who died in the American Civil War.