Port Huron, Michigan "Port Huron"
Port Huron .
Port Huron, Michigan Port Huron is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Michigan and the governmental center of county of St.
The town/city is adjoining to Port Huron Township but is administratively autonomous.
Clair River, it is connected to Point Edward, Ontario in Canada via the Blue Water Bridge.
The town/city lies at the southern end of Lake Huron and is the easternmost point on territory in Michigan.
Port Huron is home to two paper mills; Mueller Brass; and many businesses related to tourism and the automotive industry.
The town/city features a historic downtown area, boardwalk, marina, exhibition, lighthouse, and the Mc - Morran Place arena and entertainment complex.
In 1814 following the War of 1812, the United States established Fort Gratiot at the base of Lake Huron.
Until 1836, an Ojibwa reservation occupied territory in part of the undivided region of Port Huron.
In 1857, Port Huron became incorporated.
In 1859 the town/city had a total of 4.031 residents; 1855 were of foreign birth or their children. By 1870, Port Huron's populace exceeded that of encircling villages.
In 1871, the State Supreme Court designated Port Huron as the county seat. On October 8, 1871, the city, as well as places north in Sanilac and Huron counties, burned in the Port Huron Fire of 1871.
The Thumb Fire that occurred a decade later, also engulfed Port Huron.
In 1895 the village of Fort Gratiot, in the vicinity of the former Fort Gratiot, was took in by the town/city of Port Huron. Clair River, the vital waterway joining Lake Erie and Lake Huron.
The light, automated in 1933, continues to guide shipping on Lake Huron into the narrow and swift-flowing St.
Lightship Huron.
From 1935 until 1970, the Huron was stationed in southern Lake Huron to mark dangerous shoals.
After 1940 the Huron was the only lightship operating on the Great Lakes.
Retired from Coast Guard Service in 1970, she was presented to the City of Port Huron in 1971.
The depot, which is now part of the Port Huron Museum, is where 12-year-old Thomas Edison departed daily on the Port Huron Detroit run.
Port Huron Public Library.
In 1902 the town/city of Port Huron secured cash from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to erect a municipal library.
The Port Huron Public Library served in its initial capacity for over sixty years.
The following year the former library was renovated and re-opened as the Port Huron Museum of Arts and History.
The tunnel was opened in 1891 and links Port Huron with Canada.
While there, they advanced the Port Huron Statement, the SDS manifesto.
Port Huron about 1902 Huron Avenue in 1912 According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.26 square miles (31.75 km2), of which 8.08 square miles (20.93 km2) is territory and 4.18 square miles (10.83 km2) is water. Clair county is part of the Detroit Metropolitan Statistical area.
Port Huron is the principal town/city of the region known as Blue Water Area, a subregion of the Thumb.
The easternmost point (on land) of Michigan can be found in Port Huron, just south of the Blue Water Bridge.
Climate data for Port Huron NOAA Station Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 7.4 5.9 2.9 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 5.3 22.9 Port Huron is the biggest city in the Thumb area, and is a center of trade and trade for the region.
Huron Light Ship Museum The Port Huron Museum is a series of four exhibitions, namely: Carnegie Center -- Port Huron Museum Huron Lightship Each year, the Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race is held, with a starting point in Port Huron north of the Blue Water Bridge.
The race finishes at Mackinac Island, Michigan, crossing Lake Huron.
The Port Huron Civic Theatre began in 1956 by a group of theater lovers.
Clair County Library is positioned in downtown Port Huron.
The International Symphony Orchestra of Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan perform affairs at Mc - Morran Place and the Imperial Oil Centre for the Performing Arts in Sarnia.
Encompassing over 100 homes and buildings, the Olde Town Historic District is Port Huron's first and only residentiary historic district.
The Olde Town Historic Neighborhood Association is an organization working to preserve historic architecture in Port Huron.
The Welkin Base Ball Club is Port Huron's historic vintage base ball team.
Modeled on Port Huron's first baseball club from 1867, the Welkin Base Ball Club re-creates the time of base ball's roots.
Playing other vintage ball clubs of the area, the Welkins strive to entertain and educate spectators about Port Huron's past.
Port Huron has had a strong tradition of minor league hockey for many years.
The Port Huron Flags played in the initial International Hockey League from 1962-1981, winning three Turner Cup championships in 1966, 1971 and 1972.
Port Huron was also represented in the Colonial Hockey League (also operating under the names United Hockey League and International Hockey League), with franchises from 1996 until the league closed in 2010.
The Port Huron Fighting Falcons of the junior North American Hockey League played at Mc - Morran Place, beginning in 2010 until 2013.
Port Huron is also home to the Port Huron Prowlers of the Federal Hockey League.
The Port Huron Pirates indoor football team dominated the Great Lakes Indoor Football League up until their departure to Flint, MI.
Mc - Morran Arena once again hosted indoor football with the Port Huron Predators of the Continental Indoor Football League in 2011.
The Predators floundered to finish the 2011 season, and were replaced in 2012 by the Port Huron Patriots who also particiate in the CIFL.
The City of Port Huron owns and operates 17 waterfront areas including 102 acres (0.4 km2) and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of water frontage.
Port Huron operates the biggest municipal marina fitness in the state and has five separate locations for boat mooring.
The City has 14 enhance parks, 4 smaller-sized "tot" parks, 19 playgrounds (City owned), 9 playgrounds (School owned), 33 tennis courts, including 16 at schools and 6 indoors, 3 enhance beaches, 4 enhance swimming pools, 1 improve center, and 1 enhance parkway.
The City Council is responsible for appointing a City Manager, who is the Chief Administrative Officer of the city.
Federally, Port Huron is part of Michigan's 10th congressional district, represented by Republican Candice Miller, propel in 2002.
Baker College - Port Huron Campus Port Huron is served by two acute care facilities, Mc - Laren Port Huron, and Lake Huron Medical Center.
Mc - Laren Health Care Corporation, a nonprofit managed care community care organization based in Flint, Michigan, purchased the former Port Huron Hospital and began operating the 186-bed facility as Mclaren Port Huron in May 2014. Lake Huron Medical Center, is a 144-bed facility directed by Ontario, California based Prime Healthcare Services.
Joseph Mercy Port Huron hospital in September 2015 from Trinity Healthcare. Upon culmination of the sale, the formerly non-profit Catholic institution converted to a for-profit entity.
The first station to sign on in Port Huron was WHLS, coinciding with the opening of the Blue Water Bridge in 1938.
He would later launch the first Cable Television fitness in Port Huron and WSAQ in 1983.
Radio First owns and operates five airways broadcasts in the region while Port Huron Family Radio is the licensee of sole station WGRT.
The following is a list of broadcast airways broadcasts that furnish small-town content to the Port Huron Area.
WNFA 88.3 FM, Port Huron, Religious, Blue Water Christian Hit Radio WNFR 90.7 FM, Port Huron, Religious, Wonderful News Radio WSGR-FM 91.3 FM, Port Huron, College/Freeform,The Eclectic Sound WORW 91.9 FM, Port Huron, Educational, The Wave WGRT 102.3 FM, Port Huron, Adult Contemporary, Your Great Music Station Clair (relays WHLS AM), Active Rock, Port Huron's Alternative WSAQ 107.1 FM, Port Huron, Country, Q-Country, The Greatest Country Music of All Time WHLS 1450 AM, Port Huron, Active Rock, Port Huron's Alternative WPHM 1380 AM, Port Huron, News/Talk/Sports, Where the Blue Water Area Comes to Talk WHLX 1590 AM, Marine City, Active Rock, Port Huron's Alternative The Port Huron Times Herald , a daily small-town journal serving St Clair County and Sanilac counties.
Clair County also receives the following stations from the Sarnia / London area, but are presently not carried on cable: See also: Port Huron (Amtrak station) Two Interstates terminate at the Port Huron-to-Sarnia Blue Water Bridge, and they meet Highway 402.
I-69 enters the region from the west, coming from Lansing and Flint, terminating at the approach to the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron.
(Once fully completed, the mainline of I-69 will span from Brownsville, Texas to Port Huron, Michigan.) I-94 enters the Port Huron region from the southwest, having traversed the entire Metro Detroit region, and, along with I-69, terminates at the approach to the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron.
M-25 follows the Lake Huron/Saginaw Bay shoreline, beginning in Bay City and ending in at junction with I-94/I-69, and BL I-94/BL I-69 on the north side of the city.
Highway 402 begins in Sarnia, Ontario, athwart the river from Port Huron and at the easterly end of the Blue Water Bridge.
The Blue Water Area Transit system, created in 1976, includes eight routes in the Port Huron area.
Blue Water Transit operates the Blue Water Trolley, which provides a one-hour tour of various small-town points of interest.
Recently, Blue Water Area Transit received a grant from the state to buy new buses for a route between the Port Huron core and New Baltimore about 30 miles (48 km) south.
Amtrak provides intercity passenger rail service on the Blue Water route from Chicago to Port Huron (Amtrak station).
Two class one freight barns s operate in Port Huron Canadian National Railway (CN) and CSX Transportation (CSXT) with global connections via the St.
Via Rail train service from Toronto to Sarnia (part of the Quebec City Windsor Corridor) is also available; however, this train does not cross the river, requiring passengers to make arrangements for road travel to Port Huron.
Clair River (Port Huron, MI to Sarnia, ON) In 2009 the TV show Criminal Minds used Port Huron, and Detroit as locations for an episode involving crossing the border into Ontario. Thomas A Edison (1847-1931), inventor and entrepreneur, moved to Port Huron in 1854 Port Huron Statement Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Port Huron, Michigan "Population of Port Huron", East Saginaw Courier, 13 October 1859, View 2, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, accessed 5 September 2014 Clair County - Port Huron Township & City".
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Carnegie Center, Port Huron Museum "Blue Water Area Transit".
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Port Huron Clair County, Michigan, United States Clair County, Michigan - County seats in Michigan - Populated places on the Great Lakes - Populated places established in 1857 - Canada United States border suburbs - 1857 establishments in Michigan
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