Some Interesting Facts About Port Huron, Michigan-- Part 2

**  1857:  On Feb. 3 Port Huron became an incorporated city.  It consolidated with the villages of Fort Gratiot, Desmond, Huron and Peru.

**  Prior to the Civil War, Port Huron was an important terminus for the Underground Railroad.

**  The population grew rapidly after the 1850s because of shipbuilding and the lumber trade.

**  In the years after the Civil War, Port Huron was the second largest immigration point in the United States.  Only the one in New York City at Ellis Island was larger.

**  The Thomas Edison Boyhood Home is located in Port Huron.

--Brock-Perry