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itself connected with the rest of the civilized world and celebrated the year by becoming incorporated as a city. At the outset and for a long time after the growth of Port Huron was greatly hampered by the existence of two reservations within what are now the city limits, the Military Reservation on the North side and the Indian Reservation on the South side of Black River. The Indian Reservation ex- tended up Black River from just east of Military Street bridge far enough to take in what is known as the Campau tract. The Indians occupied but a small portion of this Reservation which had been made in the treaty of !M)7 which Gov. Hull made with the Chippewas and some other tribes. At most the Indian use was occasional only, the tribe wandering from place to place in different seasons of the year, and in 1836 the government made another treaty with the Chippewas, buying their rights in this land, and in 1839, the land was sold at auction, and it became a part of the settlement. The Military Reservation was attached to Fort Gratiot and came down to Suffern or Grandview Street and extended as far North as State Street, the fort itself being a short distance South of the latter street. The fort dur- ing most of its existence was merely a collection of officers houses and bar- racks for the men surrounded by an ordinary fence, and was not intended for defense. A few roads were permitted to run through the reservation but the settlement on the North was in the township of Fort Gratiot and subse- quently became a part of Port Huron. A large part of the Reservation was sold under authority of Congress in 1871 and was rapidly built up and the fort abandoned finally in 1879. For many years the only railroad in Port Huron was the Grand Trunk and its station was on the river bank just South of State Street, and in 1867 a street car line was built up Huron Ave. to the river bank and then along the bank to the Grand Trunk Station. Extensions were later made across Black River and down to Griswold Street and in 1886 the power to operate the line was changed to electricity and thus Port Huron became the second city to continuously use electric motive power for street cars. The foregoing are the salient points of the early history of Port Huron. The later history is within the memory of so many living men and women, and preserved in the newspapers of the city, that it need not be recounted here
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village by the legislature in 1849, it only had a population of 1584 by the census of 1850. Twenty years later it had reached 6000, had a daily news- paper, and had at last after many years of struggle succeeded in removing the County Seat from St. Clair, although it was not established at Port Huron until the following year. In the meantime the community had developed in the orthodox Ameri- can fashion: churches and schools appeared and their number increased with the growth of population. In 1838 the first church was built on the north side of Broad Street about where the present fire hall stands, and in 1844 it was moved to the south side of Butler Street at the corner of Fort Street. At the time this church was built it had no denominational name, but in 1840 it passed under the control of a Presbyterian society, which a few years later changed and became Congregational. This society worshipped in this building until 1859 when it moved to the brick church completed in that year at the corner of Wall and Seventh Streets. The second church was Episcopal built in 1841 on the northwest cor- ner of Huron Avenue and Butler Street, and its first minister was the chap- lain at Fort Gratiot. In 1844 the Methodist society which was organized in 1840 built a church on the west side of Sixth Street, and this building they sold to the Catholics in 1851, and built a larger church on the site now occu- pied by the Times-Herald building. There was no organized Catholic society until 1851 when the Methodist Church was bought and moved to the place now occupied by the Lauth hotel. The Baptists did not have a building of their own until 1863 when they built on the east side of Superior Street near Butler Street. The first school teaching was done by two missionaries who came to Fort Gratiot in 182 1 to teach the Indians and who in fact taught all chil- dren who would come. The first school house was built in 1833 on the South side of Broad Street at the corner of Superior and came in later years to be known as the Old Brown School House. In 1849 the North Union School building was erected on the site of the present jail. The first school building on the South side of Black River was built in 1842. This was burned in 1859 and soon after the present Washington School was built. The first high school building was completed in 1870, burned in 1873, re- built in 1874 and again burned in 1906, and the present building completed in 1908. From the earliest time of the settlement at the mouth of Black River the only means of getting out to the rest of the world was by St. Clair River and lake to Detroit by boat except in winter time, and then generally on the ice. In 1832 the Military road to Detroit was completed and not long after that the steamboat Gen. Gratiot began to run beween Detroit and Black River, up one day and back the next. At that time there was deeper water in Black River than now and the steam boat went more than once up as tar as adham’s mill. In those days the county roads were no better than now, and the travel to Detroit except by boat infrequent, until in 1859 the Grand Trunk Railroad was completed and thereafter Port Huron felt
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