Port Huron

Port Huron, capital of St Clair county, Michigan, is on the St Clair River where it issues from Lake Huron, and at the mouth of the Black River, 59 miles by rail NNE. of Detroit. The rivers are crossed by four iron bridges. The city has a fine custom-house (1877), shipyards and dry-docks, sawmills, grain-elevators, and machine and railroad shops. Much pine timber is brought down by the Black River. A railway tunnel passing under the St Clair River connects the town with Sarnia, in Canada (see ST CLAIR); there is also a steam-ferry to Sarnia, and steamboats ply daily, except in winter, between Port Huron and Detroit. Pop. (1880) 8883; (1890) 13,543.