In 1908, the third Port Huron High School building opened here, where two previous high schools had stood. Port Huron architect George Harvey designed this Second Renaissance Revival-style school, constructed of brick and limestone.

In 1897 the parish built a monumental Neo-Gothic church in Emmett and burned in 1966 and was replaced with the present structure, which typified the church architecture of the era when it was completed in 1970.

The North Channel Shooting Club was organized in 1869. Detroit sportsmen arrived at the club by ferryboat, interurban railroad, and private yachts.

Emily Ward established the Newport Academy about 1845 to provide educational opportunities for area children. This structure, erected in 1847, was one of the first school buildings in the community and has served many different purposes since then.

This congregation dates from 1849 when people worshipped in log barracks within Fort Gratiot.

Built-in 1884 at a cost of $12,300, this edifice has served continuously as the seat of local government. Marine City was incorporated as the village of Marine in 1865.

This Queen Anne-style structure was erected in 1899 by James Livingston. During the late nineteenth century Livingston and his son-in-law, James McColl produced linseed oil and twine in their flax mills in Michigan and Canada.

In the 1830s, numerous Catholic settlers immigrated to the Anchor Bay area. Not before long land was donated and a church was constructed and later reconstructed after a fire.

After 1940 the Huron was the only lightship on the Great Lakes. Retired from Coast Guard service in 1970, she was presented to the city of Port Huron in 1971.

Holy Cross Parish has remained in continuous use and service to the people for over 150 years, and with it is much history.

This house belonged to the family of Jacob Harsen. A gunsmith and fur trader who arrived here about 1778, Harsen was the first white settler on the island and he and his family once owned the island.

The Harrington Hotel opened amid much fanfare in 1896. A unique blend of Romanesque, Classical, and Queen Anne architecture, the hotel thrived for many years. Harry S. Truman, the future thirty-third president of the United States, stayed here on his honeymoon with his wife Bess.

The cemetery is reminiscent of Victorian-era perpetual care lawn cemeteries. A draped obelisk and a pedestaled larger-than-life-size maiden holding a bouquet of flowers exemplify monuments popular during this period. Renamed Woodlawn Cemetery in 1901.

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.

This lighthouse is the oldest in Michigan. Built in 1829 to replace a tower destroyed by a storm and later workers extended the tower to its present height of eighty-six feet. The light, automated in 1933, continues to guide shipping on Lake Huron

At this point, the Grand Trunk Western Railroad tunnel, linking Port Huron with Canada, passes underneath Gratiot Avenue. This international submarine railway tunnel—the first in the world—was opened in 1891.

This red-brick, stone-faced structure was built in 1879 by Samuel Hopkins on land donated by his son William. Founded in 1833, its congregation is the oldest continuing one in St. Clair County.

Around 1852 the first meetinghouse was built here on land donated by the village board of supervisors. That church burned in 1870. The present Romanesque-inspired church was erected three years later.

A frame school, built on the site prior to 1853, was replaced by this brick school around 1873. It was one of three mid-nineteenth-century schools in the township and is the only one remaining.

E. C. Williams built this double house in 1890-91, in what was then the village of Fort Gratiot. Williams published the Fort Gratiot Sun, a newspaper that circulated primarily among railroad passengers and crew.