Port Huron, Michigan Tourist in Your Home Town Day
Tom Sanders
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Once a year, Port Huron residents can become tourists and never leave town.
On Port Huron's annual Tourist In Your Home Town day, the first Saturday in June, museums and outdoor attractions that usually charge admission are free. A free bus shuttle between them runs every two hours. You can board anywhere, get off anywhere, and stay as long as you want. 
Port Huron, MI 48060
United States of America
An alternative to the shuttle is a favorite walking tour of mine that begins at the Edison Depot Museum, continues at the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, and ends at the Huron Lightship.
There's parking along the St. Clair River near the Edison Depot Museum, at the corner of State Street and Edison Parkway and almost under the Blue Water Bridge. The museum building is the restored Grand Trunk Railroad depot built in 1858.
Thomas Edison lived in Port Huron from age 7 through 16, and sold fruit, candy, and newspapers on Grand Trunk's Port Huron-Detroit trains from 1859 until 1863. The statue across Edison Parkway is of a young Tom Edison holding a tray in which he carried his wares.
The museum's timeline follows Edison from birth in Ohio through boyhood in Port Huron to world-famous inventor. Kids can try out a reproduction of the first telegraph. For film buffs, there's a life-size recreation of the "Black Maria," the world's first movie studio. Your record collector tour guide, who still thinks living in a town the phonograph's inventor called home is special, also recommends the museum's talking machine exhibits that include a working cylinder player.
For a virtual tour of other Edison Depot exhibits, visit its page on the Port Huron Museums web site, http://www.phmuseum.org/edison.html
Four blocks north of the Edison Depot on Wright Street, and two blocks east on Riverview -- about a fifteen minute walk -- is the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse. Built in 1829, it's Michigan's oldest, and still working. In the small entrance is a collection of informative newspaper articles on the Fort Gratiot Light, and lighthouses in general, compiled by lighthouse keeper Bob Hanford.
On Port Huron's annual Tourist In Your Home Town day, the first Saturday in June, museums and outdoor attractions that usually charge admission are free. A free bus shuttle between them runs every two hours. You can board anywhere, get off anywhere, and stay as long as you want.
Port Huron, Michigan Tourist in Your Home Town Day
Neigborhood: RiverfrontPort Huron, MI 48060
United States of America
An alternative to the shuttle is a favorite walking tour of mine that begins at the Edison Depot Museum, continues at the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, and ends at the Huron Lightship.
There's parking along the St. Clair River near the Edison Depot Museum, at the corner of State Street and Edison Parkway and almost under the Blue Water Bridge. The museum building is the restored Grand Trunk Railroad depot built in 1858.
Thomas Edison lived in Port Huron from age 7 through 16, and sold fruit, candy, and newspapers on Grand Trunk's Port Huron-Detroit trains from 1859 until 1863. The statue across Edison Parkway is of a young Tom Edison holding a tray in which he carried his wares.
The museum's timeline follows Edison from birth in Ohio through boyhood in Port Huron to world-famous inventor. Kids can try out a reproduction of the first telegraph. For film buffs, there's a life-size recreation of the "Black Maria," the world's first movie studio. Your record collector tour guide, who still thinks living in a town the phonograph's inventor called home is special, also recommends the museum's talking machine exhibits that include a working cylinder player.
For a virtual tour of other Edison Depot exhibits, visit its page on the Port Huron Museums web site, http://www.phmuseum.org/edison.html
Four blocks north of the Edison Depot on Wright Street, and two blocks east on Riverview -- about a fifteen minute walk -- is the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse. Built in 1829, it's Michigan's oldest, and still working. In the small entrance is a collection of informative newspaper articles on the Fort Gratiot Light, and lighthouses in general, compiled by lighthouse keeper Bob Hanford.
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