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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FT5_tom-edison-at-grand-trunk_Port-Huron-MI.html
The Grand Trunk Railroad depot to the right is where 12-year-old Tom Edison departed daily on the Port Huron-Detroit run. In 1859, the railroad's first year of operation. Tom persuaded the company to let him sell newspapers and confections on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FT4_native-americans_Port-Huron-MI.html
Archaeologists found evidence of a native village (circa 1000 A.D.) located one block north of where you are standing. These prehistoric people fished the waters of Lake Huron and the St. Clair River, hunted game and gathered foods in nearby woodl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FT3_ships-on-the-st-clair_Port-Huron-MI.html
The St. Clair River has always been an important part of the Great Lakes system. For centuries native people traveled throughout the region in canoes, as did the early French fur traders. In 1679, LaSalle's Griffon was the first sailing ship to pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FT2_bridging-the-blue-waters_Port-Huron-MI.html
People first crossed the St. Clair River using logs, rafts and canoes. Steam-powered ferries began carrying freight and people in the 1840s. The river current pushed tethered swing ferries from shore to shore. Later other ferries were used, and in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRLI_the-john-s-martin_Port-Huron-MI.html
On August 4, 1900, the "Fontana" sank while in these narrows. Several weeks later, on September 25, 1900, the "Martin", a 225 foot schooner with a load of iron ore, was being towed downbound from Lake Huron by the steamer "Grover". In attempting t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRLD_methodist-episcopal-church_Port-Huron-MI.html
This congregation dates from 1849, when people worshipped in log barracks within Fort Gratiot. Known as the Mission of Fort Gratiot, it was served by circuit riders until 1859 when the Reverend Samuel Clemens began his tenure. The present church b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRLC_huron-lightship_Port-Huron-MI.html
Commissioned in 1921, the Huron began service as a relief vessel for other Great Lakes lightships. She is ninety-seven feet long, twenty-four feet in beam, and carried a crew of eleven. On clear nights her beacon could be seen for fourteen miles. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRL9_fort-saint-joseph_Port-Huron-MI.html
Built near here in 1686 by the French explorer Duluth, this fort was the second white settlement in lower Michigan. This post guarded the upper end of the vital waterway joining Lake Erie and Lake Huron. Designed to bar English traders from the up…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRL6_fort-gratiot-light_Port-Huron-MI.html
This lighthouse, oldest in Michigan, was built in 1829 to replace a tower destroyed by a storm. Lucius Lyon, the builder, was Deputy Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory and later a United States senator from Michigan. In the 1860s workers …