Huron

Bay Port, MI

The Gillingham Fish Company was established in 1886; the Bay Port Fish Company, in 1895.

Port Austin, MI

A native of New York, contractor Charles G. Learned helped build New York City’s waterworks system and the Erie Canal.

Ubly, MI

Built in 1907 by local contractor David Pierce, the Citizens Bank Block also housed a harness shop and a library.

Harbor Beach, MI

Frank Murphy was Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1940 until his death in 1949.

Fair Haven Twp, MI

Small fires were burning in the forests of the Thumb, tinder-dry after a long, hot summer, when a gale swept in from the southwest on...

Huron City, MI

During the mid-1850s the firm of R. B. Hubbard and Company, which included Connecticut-born entrepreneurs Langdon Hubbard, his brother...

Sebewaing, MI

One of Sebewaing’s most prominent citizens, John C. Liken (1832-1920), came here in 1865 from New York State where he owned a cooperage.

Caseville, MI

In 1868 the Reverend Manasseh Hickey and twelve settlers organized a Methodist Episcopal church in Caseville.

Owendale, MI

In 1882, as three new railroads began to lay track in Huron County, two cousins from Saginaw, John G. and John S. Owen, bought land in...

Pigeon, MI

The Pigeon Depot was constructed in 1908 and served two railroad lines.

Port Hope, MI

The Pointe aux Barques Lighthouse and Lifesaving Station aided mariners for over a century, beginning in 1847.

Port Hope, MI

This chimney was built in 1858 by John Geltz.

Kinde, MI

The Polish refugees who immigrated to Dwight Township in the 1840s in order to escape Prussian domination worshipped at St. Michael’s...

Bay Port, MI

Stagecoaches played an important part in developing the Midwest.

Sebewaing, MI

Here, on July 1, 1845, three Lutheran missionaries, Rev. Johann J. F. Auch, Rev. J. Simon Dumser, and Rev. George Sinke, arrived.

White Rock, MI

Named after a boulder in Lake Huron that was used as a landmark in the Indian Treaty of 1807, the village was settled about 1860.