Bay Port Area Historical Society

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The Bay Port Area Historical Society is devoted to collecting, preserving, and publicizing all materials that help illustrate the life and events, both past and present, of Bay Port and the surrounding community.

03/23/2026

The Ora Labora Experiment by Florence McKinnon Gwinn

The Ora Labora Experiment is an excerpt from a common historical document that has been scanned and re-published numerous times on the Internet from the “Pioneer History of Huron County” – 1922 by Florence McKinnon Gwinn, Caseville, Michigan. Some researchers consider …

https://thumbwind.com/2019/12/26/ora-labora-experiment/?fsp_sid=31643

12/16/2025

Bay Port, Michigan, sits in the Thumb on Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay. In this bird’s-eye photo, captioned as early 1900s, the railroad is the town’s spine. A depot marked “Bay Port” faces straight tracks and waiting boxcars. Dirt roads curve past porches, fences, the grain elevator, and the hotel that still stands today. Before paved highways and long commutes, rail schedules set the pace—moving mail, people, and iced fish out of Huron County.

11/23/2025

The Great Fires of 1871 - The Burning Great Lakes

In Michigan’s Thumb, the situation could not be worse. The prevailing winds brought embers and dense smoke from the other Michigan fires burning in the west. Within hours over 2,000 lives were lost and millions of acres burned.

https://thumbwind.com/2021/10/06/great-lakes-fire-1871/?fsp_sid=22566

11/23/2025

Michigan M-25 is States First Scenic Highway in 1940

An M-25 Road Trip is taken around Michigan’s Thumb months prior to World War II. The tourism industry is still recovering from the Great Depression and paving M25 was just completed making it Michigan's 1st Scenic Highway.

This folksy article was from the Huron Times in 1940.

https://thumbwind.com/2021/10/10/m25-road-trip-scenic-travel/?fsp_sid=22535

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836 2nd Street
Bay Port, MI
48720

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