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It's called the black river because in croswell where the pioneer sugar plant is located, the workers would dump the material from the sugar beets into the river and the minerals would change the water color black
That makes no sense you can find places down river from Croswell that the water is so super clear...... the problem is water flow. The black river runs much slower so that the sediment doesn't get pushed down as fast as in comparison to the Saint Clair river. Where the water is constantly moving like in Bairds Hills its so clear (as long as its not a down pour and pushing dirt into the water constantly) and that is down from Croswell
There used to be a certain species of pine tree that grew in the wetlands at the source of Black River. We're talking from 1600s recorded exploration to the 1800s. The tannins from the pines turned the river as black as tea, according to the journals of exploration. Over time, as industry developed, people used the rivers as a sewer for human and industrial waste. It got so stinky that residents of Port Huron couldn't open their windows in summer. So the city dug a canal, seen at about 7:59 in this video, to draw water from Lake Huron into Black River. The incoming flow of fresh water flushed the little river, solving the stink problem. Before clean water laws, the sugar beet waste was dumped into Black River, but it wasn't enough to change the color of the water. That practice was ended in the 1970s. If you follow Black River all the way to its source on a satellite map, you won't see the stand of wetland pine trees. I don't know why they disappeared, but since they're gone, the river isn't as black as tea any more.
It has been called Black River LONG before the sugar plant opened in 1902. It has been called the black river since the 1700s and probably longer. The local Indians called it The Black River or some variation of that.
Port Huron, like any other city, is what you make it. I was born & raised here, loved the water, beaches, ships, etc. I was gone for 42 years with the military & government. I came home almost every summer to camp & enjoy the area. I finally was able to return. Yes, much has changed, people have changed but the natural beauty of the river & lake is still the same. Your comment about many months of winter… wrong. I was stationed in true winter areas, this is not one of those areas. Come back in warmer months & see the beauty!
Port Huron, Michigan is such a beautiful city. It is called the "Marine capital of the Great Lakes" It is located on Lake located on Lake Huron, northeast of Detroit.The parks of Port Huron have something for everyone...swimming, susbanthing, boating, beaches, pools pienicking , fishing, walking, jogging, volleyball....from Chicago...
Chris, the original Saint Clair River Tunnel was the first International submarine tunnel in the World. The original tunnel completed in 1891 was replaced by a new, much larger tunnel, about 500 feet North of the original in 1997. The original tunnel was abandoned at that time. The new tunnel can accommodate the largest rail cars currently in use. The portals of both tunnels can be viewed from East of 16th street in Port Huron or in Sarina, but I don’t remember the street names there. Gary
Great video, Chris. Great drone work and what a beautiful place, Port Huron is. Thanks for this one! I think I could live there if I could get the hell out of Los Angeles!
Remember we have 4 Seasons and the One in January is brutal🥶But I love it here So close to Detroit,5 minutes from Canada 🇨🇦 I'm Originally from Oregon lived their half my Life My Sister lives in California and I cannot wrap my head around it she stays 20minutes from All the Homeless people😳
@@PeterGreter we have Alot of skiing,ice fishing,Snowboarding,Ice-skating DetroitRedWings🐙etc kayaking in the Summer is Huge But Yachting is the Big one Detroit yachtclub Boating in general⛵️
I laughed at your humor. At 22:10 when you passed the Port Huron Yacht Club you also passed the former location of the Fitzgerald Shipbuilders. It's not marked, though. It was established by Edmund Fitzgerald, great-uncle to the guy the ship was named for.
I remember when Birchwood Mall opened you thought it was the second coming people were overjoyed to finally have some place to go shopping and now it's a ghost town crazy huh
We had all the stores downtown in 1990. But people wanted a mall because they thought it was cool. I worked in one of the downtown stores and didn't want the mall. They had to drain wetlands to build it. I moved up with the store when it went to the mall and I hated every minute of the 7 years I worked up there. It's always people just following Dad's that are going to fall out of favor into decay and rot.
I've worked in Port Huron on many occasions in the past. The first thing that impressed me about thirty years ago was the huge old three story homes in good condition along the main street. You could tell they had been built by wealthy people in the past with large families.
Despite the bad, this is a beautiful area and I’m proud to say it’s my hometown, but I wouldn’t live in the city, so I call port huron township home! Great video.
this is a beautiful area….when the grass is green and leaves are on the trees. The shoreline is gorgeous and majestic. Beautiful sunrises…..excellent healthcare and hospitals parks and beaches. But I realize you are mainly focusing on the streets……..living on the water and enjoying the river is incredible. Knowing that you could get on the river and from there travel the world is pretty cool. l
I lived here when I was younger and loved it - I called it home despite living in many other places. If you were from Port Huron, you had a heavy Michigan accent, had a lot Canadian coins, went to Detroit for big city things, or Toronto for bigger city things. You ate Detroit style pizza before it was cool. The beaches are smaller, and rockier than on the Lake Michigan, but the water quality is just as good. You can take a ferry to cross the border into Canada south of PH. That mall used to be cool, but it sucked the life out of downtown as the retail stores fled to the Ft. Gratiot. Many people did not go to college or grad school there, but have decent, blue-collar jobs. Most are so friendly and lack pretention. When I was in high school, I moved across the state to Kalamazoo on the state's West Side, which is culturally much different than the East Side which is more dominated by the automotive industry, unions and are less Dutch. Port Huron was by far the least pretentious, fun little city I've lived in - but don't expect to be culturally enriched.
My hometown! I was just there the first week of August for my high school reunion. Port Huron Northern class of 1992. I dont live there anymore but it's fun to visit once on awhile.
It's called the black river because it starts in the swamps in Sanilac county. The decaying leaves in the swamps release a lot of tannins in the water that gives it a black color - much like a river of tea.
Thats what I was thinking. They really fixed it up since they decided The Wall was a safety hazard (it really was😅 I was always too scared to actually jump in the river from it. Stayed safe on the inside)
17:30 their is a statue of Tomas Edison. Also the under water tunnel built in 1891 has been blocked off for 28+ years they built a new one right next to the old one 28 years ago and filled the old tunnel with dirt and tons of concrete.
Do you travel along any segments of old U.S. 25 in this video? US25's Northern Terminus was at the junction with MI-53 in Port Austin and then follows MI-25 into Port Huron where it takes MI-29 to where you could follow MI-29 to Gratiot in Chesterfield (an early alignment) or take Gratiot all the way into Detroit and follow Fort Street out of town....
Used to visit Port Huron while working on the construction of the CN St Clair River Tunnel. Used to enjoy have a beer in the L shaped shack bar under the bridges, it had an L shaped pool table well. Sometimes have meals in the Port Huron hotel, but there was a non-chain chicken restaurant on the road heading south right-hand side that did great meals. I made friends with a Port Huron couple that would visit Sarnia, to play ice hockey. So were invited over to watch em play in PH. He was also the Pipe Major of the Michigan Police Pipe Band, now that was something else to watch and admire. His wife worked in immigration on the bridge and got me issued with a card that got me through quicker. I had a great 18 months there and enjoyed both towns and the people, watched ice hockey, sailed on the lake and attended farm shows, took in all that I could in the off time I had. Thank you all for that.
Thanks for this great video. I'm really enjoying your channel and commentary. Port Huron doesn't look too bad. A lot nicer than some of those dumps that you've shown us. And Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is a pretty nice place. Most of the USA towns and cities along (or at least near) the Canadian border are OK places to live. Some really nice places in Montana, North Dakota, Washington, etc.
I used to work at that Firestone Tire store in downtown Port Huron. I also used to go to the bars in Sarnia when I was 18 because that was their minimum drinking age! The good old days!!
Interesting and through video of Port Huron. Last time there,we spent time at the Thomas Edison Museum.Very interesting things on display there. Next time there, I will be looking for Coin Shops.
Beautiful drone work! Thanks for sharing the lovely blue color of Lake Huron. I’m a Michigander, and started disliking Lake Huron, I moved over to Lake Michigan side. You’ve given me hope that Lake Huron will make a recovery.
One of my favorite places in Michigan. While Port Huron is losing population, Fort Gratiot TWP has grown enormously. The Lake Shore areas are not likely to diminish in population much and that's reflected in the home prices. My sister -in-law just purchased a home in Marine City, right on the river. Not cheap and needed a complete renovation which she is in the middle of now. Meanwhile, I miss the area, but am enjoying Florida!
I remember seeing the two freighters that collided underneath the blue water bridge back in the seventies. They also had that big tunnel expulsion back then too.
The tunnel explosion was at the intake of the Detroit water system about5 miles north of the north city border. There was a methane explosion when the temp . Cap was being removed with a large loss of life.
@@erbewayne6868 yep, was big news. The Edmund Fitzgerald, the tunnel explosion, the freighters crashing. All around the same time. My mom’s family is from forester Michigan, we used to go there all the kid. I miss seeing Lake Huron .
Great video. Kind of funny how most midwestern cities basically look the same. You could be driving through the southern Milwaukee suburbs of Cudahy, South Milwaukee and Oak Creek along Lake Michigan and they'd look much like Port Huron.
You were cheated out of seeing Port Huron by this guy paying somebody to hang out the passenger window doing a drive-by, including flying past three Lake Huron beaches, the downtown marinas and river parks.
@@KelJayP That's what his channel does. He drives by. Hr spent a lot of time along the river parks. I mean, what do you expect? A slow, six day walking tour in mid winter?
I live in Sarnia, we enjoy border hopping to Port Huron for some shopping occasionally. Just wondering, do you guys also have food trucks by the bridge, or is the "bridge fries" just a Sarnia thing?
There are trucks. Used to have bridge fries but further south at a place called vantage point. After the guy that owned it died I don't know if anyone is going to maintain the area.
Across the State in South Haven is another, smaller, Black River, and it is BLACK flowing thru farm land and swampy land before hitting the lakes blue water. Quite a distinct mud line from the air.
You're not kidding about the cost of property on Lake Michigan. My college buddy's family sold an acre of their lake front to a golf course for like $6 million I think and that was in the late 90's or very early 2000's. I've always wondered about this part of the state though since I've never been.
@@dennyurie4038 🤣 Believe it or not rich people actually exist in real life. If you end up going to an expensive private college you might meet some too!
Also the urine thing, it's actually people say urine starting with an "H". Just a wierd accent thing. The lighthouse museum is free now as of this year
@@ChrisHarden oh. Just a first for this local on that one. Lol. And to follow up just a little more my wife let me know like 11 days after your drive through port huron, the city made ALL their local museums free to come see for this whole year instead of that $10 fee.
I've never in my life in Port Huron heard anyone say "urine" with an /h/. It's the other way around. Until the 1980s, we dropped the /h/ from Huron. When the '80s kids started pronouncing the /h/ it sounded very bizarre to my ears. And then the radio announcers started pronouncing it, and I knew society was in decay from then on. Originally, we also barely pronounced the final /n/. It was more French-sounding.
I moved to port huron Michigan in September 2021 from Virginia and I love it here except for housing can't find a place to live with my income it's so hard on what I make a month
So weird to see Port Huron after having left Michigan almost 20 years ago. I played a lot of hockey at Mcmorran. Played youth leagues up until high school then played high school. Not much has changed. Seeing Birchwood in that state saddens me. That was THE spot for us to hang as teenagers. You could smoke in the malls back then. We were so cool walking around in our hockey team jackets smoking cigarettes and trying to get drunk and laid.
Hi. I'm from Port Huron and I enjoyed most of your video. However, I would like to tell you it is the Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Regatta, not Bayside. Thank you.
Awesome! And I said Bayview Mackinac Race. After double checking it appears that I was correct in calling it the Bayview Mackinac Race: bycmack.com/faq/
@@ChrisHarden the name of the sailboat race is a point of contention in Port Huron. Until 2010 or 2011 we called it the Port Huron to Mackinac Race. Charities sold t-shirts with that name. Then the Bayview Yacht Club of Detroit filed the branding to claim it and stop Port Huronites from profiting off merchandise or raising funds for local charities. I get that the race originated with the members of the Bayview Yacht Club, after a couple of its members won an Atlantic sailboat race, to the shock and surprise of the East Coasters who thought Michigan was all Midwest cornfields. I get that. But the way they played dirty, running roughshod over us locals, demanding gouging licensing fees even for charities, really left a sour taste over the event. Ergo, it's the Port Huron to Mackinac Race. I've got my old collection of race tshirts going back to the 1980s until 2009, and won't put a nickel in BYC's coffers.
I'm a west sider, but did some time over there. .heard Detroiters refer to it as Porch Urine...??? But a lot of fun to bop over to Canada for some beachcombing on other side of the river. Today it's probably a hassle.
That's not true about the train tunnel it is the first international train tunnel as far as that goes any tunnel. That was an international tunnel but the first tunnel is not used today it lies next to the new tunnel that was was made because the first tunnel wasn't capable of running the tall train cars that they have I just wanted to let you know about that back the original tunnel still exists but it's just it's just to the South by 150 ft or so from the tunnel
My former spouse comes from there ... but i'll forgive them for that . There's a lot of nifty Railroad action in Port U-r'n for us Train-guys , including the only Transfer Table i've ever seen in my life
- - - As a matter of fact ☝ the spouses' Father met her future Mother while working over there in Chemical Valley and i must admit : i like HER In-laws better than My In-laws !
There has been talk of changing the highschool mascot for as long as I can remember. But a couple of the other schools were like that too Michigamme elementary is the Chiefs, Chippewa was the Braves (where Menards is now, I was the last graduating class in 2010. Blew all their money on a Christian metal band for graduation🤣🤣) and PHHS are the Big Reds. I honestly wouldn't mind a name change. Also with the hospital (as someone who works there) probably 50-60% of staff are Canadians
I remember the good old days before 911 fishing at the cost guard dock when their was no fences and catching a lot of walleye. Now I have another spot but sure miss the well light up spot
Idk about mcmorran theater holding 1100 even with the balcony seats. I do remember watching movies like water boy for only 3$ it was cheap and that was cool
River City...just like the musical, a city sleeping away 😊on the banks of a River. A fairly clean & peaceful place slumbering away in its own smugness. PH has done little to capitalize on tourists or the money generated by them. The City does not publize, grow or expand the natural or historical ties the city does have. The place is literally an undiscovered gem of opportunity if the City Fathers don't buck you in your efforts.
One little known concern of the city council in Port Huron has been the number of rental units in the city. Owner occupied homes are under 50% and have been for some years. I didn't follow up on the details and I don't know what the city did to address this concern. Interesting fact that may be related to the drug problem. Also, Lakeport State Park is just a few miles north of town and adds to the desirability of the area
You should do videos on the Canadian areas just across the border. You are so close, so why not? It would be interesting to compare them to their U.S. counterparts. Maybe go to Windsor, Ontario first. It's just across the bridge from Detroit.
I want to see Sarnia, Ontario. My GGF was born there, but immigrated (legally) to Port Huron, where he and his brothers joined the U.S. Navy during WWII (one was killed during the war). I was told that there is a colony of ppl in Sarnia who immigrated from England, which is where my ppl are originally from.
Immigration,yes. Many railroads met in PH. They funneled many immigrants to the upper Midwest & great plains. Immigrants immigrated through Canada ((& the US). They 😮took passenger steamers through tthe Lakes to PH. From there the RR fed to N&S Dakota,Wisconsin, Minnesota & the upper West. Coming through Canada & by steamer was quicker than following the lower route through the States around the bottom of the Lakes. Today it is still quicker to visit E Canada & New England states through Canada than go through the US.
I live in a crapy small town that's cheap and they don't fix the roads but it seems like all of Michigan does nothing with their roads lol I used to deliver up there to the Livonia, Detroit, Waterford, Grand Rapids areas and all the roads are the same rich or poor areas smh.
As soon as they lay down new road it starts to fall apart. That's why we're constantly dealing with road construction. It's a pain dealing with detours and slow downs and stopped traffic, but you think when it's done it'll be worth it. The first year is great. The second year you memorize the potholes. The third year you see cracks and more potholes. The fourth year you're rattling along just waiting to have to deal with another year of detours and slow traffic and stopped traffic. Rinse repeat ad nauseum.
The video footage is from a Sunday morning in March. People are likely at a place of worship, sleeping in, or having brunch. In addition it was likely a brisk March morning in Michigan. Most lacking outdoor enthusiasm don't come out until later in the spring when the temps are better...
Grew up here….in the poor part of town….though I don’t expect you fully understand what that is. That said, best part of The Port was the poor area of town….skin color didn’t matter because all of our parents worked the same lines at the factories…
Would probably be his shortest video, there aint nothing there, that’s like going to brown city or north branch for all the amazing things to do there lol.
Nice job. Fort Gratiot's pronunciation has been unfortunately bastardized into 'Grash-it'; which should be more like 'Grat-ee-oh', as the French would correctly say it. No doubt the New England Yankees who originally settled and developed the county in the early 1800s had a hand in that. Charles Chouteau Gratiot; for whom the county and Fort are named, was born in St. Louis, which was Spanish Upper Louisiana territory in the late 1700s. His father was originally a fur trader from the Illinois area....
Visiting from Ontario, we asked a store clerk how Fort Gratiot was pronounced. We were told " Fort Graysheow". On a later visit a border guard quizzed us on the pronunciation, told us it was pronounced phonetically, then said he was from Buffalo - there on a power trip I guess. 😂
Although perhaps closer to 'Grah-shee-o'. 'Tiot' is typically pronounced like 'tion' (ex. Attention), w/ the 'ti' pronounced 'sh', and the last letter silent....
as a resident of Port Huron I can vouch for the crime considering I hear a lot of it on the scanner and lately it's been a bunch of teenagers ages from 13 to 17 running amok
So first off you could have come in the summer lmao everything looks so dead.... but to be fair out here your either in fall, winter, next fall, or Construction 🤣😂🤣😂 but for real I live in Port Huron and learnd some tid bits I did not know. Secondly it's the black river because it's dark compared to the beautiful blue water we have. In comparison to the blue it's black and dirty like no racist implications it's visibly dark in comparison. We are simple people 😂🤣😂🤣
Just as across the river the bridge is in the village of Point Edward not Sarnia. None of Point Edward touches the lake either, it's only on the river.
