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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/HMRLE_newport-academy_Marine-City-MI.html
Emily Ward established the Newport Academy about 1845 to provide educational opportunities for area children. Miss Ward was a niece of Samuel Ward, the founder of Newport (now Marine City), and the sister of Eber Brock Ward, a shipping magnate and…
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/HMRLB_holy-cross-parish_Marine-City-MI.html
Father Gabriel Richard received this triangular plot of land by way of a grant from President John Quincy Adams on April 1, 1825. This area, known as Catholic Point, contains, among other buildings a church, a rectory, a convent, the former high s…
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRL4_david-and-laura-lester-house_Marine-City-MI.html
This house was likely built in stages between around 1855 and 1885 and reflects the prominence of David and Laura Rice Lester. David Lester (1823-1890), a shipbuilder, a ship owner, and a salt producer, played a key role in Marine City's economic …