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St. Clair County
Marriages & Deaths

 

Port Huron Area
Index to Local Newspapers


 

Maps, Bridges & Street Scenes

 

Maps

Michigan
 - 1839
 - 1876 - "Combination Atlas Map of St. Clair County, Michigan. Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal Examinations and Surveys by Everts & Stewart, Philadelphia (1876)
 --- Entire Plat Book, St. Clair County Public Library
 --- Townships (with page numbers):
Berlin (22), Brockway (4), Burtchville (42), Casco (20), China (35), Clay (31), Clyde (24), Columbus (34), Cottrellville (39), East China (35), Emmett (6), Fort Gratiot (32), Grant (38), Greenwood (17), Ira (25), Kenockee (16), Kimball (19), Lynn (8), Mussey (18), Port Huron (12), Riley (15), St. Clair (9), and Wales (23)
 --- Villages & Cities (with page numbers): Abbotsford (45), Adair (32), Algonac (25), Brockway & Brockway Centre (43), Capac (43), Emmett (42), Fort Gratiot & Vicinity (13), Lakeport (45), Marine City (44), Port Huron Wards 1-4 and 6 (28-29), Port Huron Ward 5 (30), St. Clair (46-47), Smith's Creek (42), Thornton (42), and Vicksburg (45)
 


 - 1894 - "Showing the Geographical locality of the City of Port Huron, Mich., and its importance as a Rail Road Termini and a Port of Commerce." Engraved on wood by W. A. Cornyn - Source: Port Huron Tribune, May 31, 1894, page 4.
 - 1897 - "Outline Map of St. Clair County, Michigan" - Source: Standard Atlas of St. Clair County, George A. Ogle & Co., 1897
 - 1929 - "Map of Port Huron" - Source: Allan Carlisle Jr., City of Port Huron Engineer's Collection
 - 1932 - "Map of Port Huron, showing the area of Port Huron from 1835 to 1932" - Source: Allan Carlisle Jr., City of Port Huron Engineer's Collection

Port Huron
 - Downtown - Bird's Eye View (c. 1867)


Bridges

7th Street Bridge
 - 1887
 - "New"

10th Street Bridge: 1, 2

Blue Water Bridge
1937 - Construction
 - Construction Begins - 1st Shovel: 1, 2, Murray VanWagoner
 - Distant View
1938 - Construction
 - Approaches - Streel Level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; (06-MAR-1938): 1, 2; (17-APR-1938); (May 1938): 1, 2; (c. July 1938)
 - Celebration of Connection, (28-MAY-1938) - "On the Air", "Steel Meets Steel", Al Weill on the Radio, Crowd Beneath, Men on Lift
 - Customs & Immigration - (15-JUL-1938)
 - Footings & Steel Towers - 1; (January 1938); (23-JAN-1938): 1, 2; (February 1938); (17-APR-1938); (07-MAY-1938); Steel Tower
 - Plaza & Toll Booths - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; (c. July 1938); (15-JUL-1938); (13-AUG-1938): 1, 2; Toll Booths
 - View: Beneath - 1, 2; (06-FEB-1938): 1, 2, 3; (06-MAR-1938): 1, 2; (27-MAR-1938); (17-APR-1938); (May 1938): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; (07-MAY-1938); (22-MAY-1938)
 - View: Distant - (March 1938): 1, 2, 3; (27-MAR-1938): 1, 2; (April 1938): 1, 2, 3; (03-APR-1938); (10-APR-1938); (May 1938): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; (01-MAY-1938); (07-MAY-1938); (22-MAY-1938); (28-MAY-1938); (05-JUN-1938)
 - View: Near - (April 1938): 1, 2, Peerless Cement: 1, 2; (May 1938): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; (01-MAY-1938): 1, 2; (07-MAY-1938); (22-MAY-1938): 1, 2; (27-MAY-1938)
 - View: Topside - (May 1938): 1, 2; (27-MAY-1938): 1, 2
1945
 - East Bound View
 - Painting - photos: 1, 2, 3
Views of Completed Bridge
 - (c. 1938), (c. June 1938): 1, 2
 - from Kieffer Park
 - Postcard

Military Street Bridge
 - Building Suspension Bridge
 - at High Water (Spring 1890)
 - Jackknife Bridge & Bush Building

Railroad Bridges (from negatives: 1, 2, 3)
 - at the Mouth of Black River

Wadhams' Bridge (1924)

White Bridge (of 1855-57)


Street Scenes

Butler Street Dock
 - From the water toward the dock
 - Idlerwild at dock

Huron Avenue
 - Looking north from Military Street, (before pavement)
 - Looking north from Military Street Bridge, (with Street Railway)
 - Looking north with Omar D. Conger ferry in forefront (1920)

Military Street
 - Looking north towards Huron Avenue, Bush Building at northern end of Military Street
 - Looking south from Huron Avenue, (before pavement)