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Scenes from the Past > Road Building Machinery, 1913. As manufactured and sold by the Port Huron Engine and Thresher Company.
Scenes from the Past > Movie premiere of "Young Tom Edison" in Port Huron, Michigan, 1940. Released March 15, 1940, starring Mickey Rooney as young Thomas Alva Edison. Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things. From Turner Classic Movies ©database: In the early 1860's, in the town of Port Huron, Michigan, young Tom Edison is misunderstood by everyone except his mother Nancy and sister Tannie. When Tom accidentally sets off a smoke bomb in the school house cloakroom, his narrow-minded teacher, Miss Lavina Howard, calls him addled and expels him from school. Although Tom's father Samuel does not understand Tom and is disgusted with his behavior, Tom's mother retains her faith in her son. Soon after, Tom wins the gratitude of Mr. McCarney, the local telegraph operator, when he pulls his little son from the path of an oncoming train. The enterprising Tom gets a job selling concessions to passengers aboard the train on the Grand Trunk Railroad, and when the Civil War starts, Tom begins to print a paper aboard the train informing passengers about the progress of the war. When Tom unwittingly carries a bottle of nitroglycerin aboard the train and sets fire to a car when one of his chemical bottles spills, he has his ears soundly boxed and is thrown off the train by Mr. Nelson, the railroad agent. Derided by the townfolk and his father, Tom plans to run away, but decides to stay when his mother falls gravely ill. In a desperate attempt to provide the needed light for an operation to save his mother's life, Tom breaks into the general store and steals a mirror to intensify the lamp light, only to be accused of theft for his ingenuity. Tom's invention helps the doctor save his mother's life, and he finally wins recognition for his heroism when he prevents a train wreck by sending a Morse code distress message on a train whistle. Tom's inventiveness wins him the admiration of the community and earns him a job as telegraph operator on the railroad. It also earns the respect of his father, who proudly tells his wife that from now on he will be known as the father of Tom Edison.
Scenes from the Past > Movie premiere of "Young Tom Edison" in Port Huron, Michigan, 1940. Released March 15, 1940, starring Mickey Rooney as young Thomas Alva Edison. Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things. From Turner Classic Movies ©database: In the early 1860's, in the town of Port Huron, Michigan, young Tom Edison is misunderstood by everyone except his mother Nancy and sister Tannie. When Tom accidentally sets off a smoke bomb in the school house cloakroom, his narrow-minded teacher, Miss Lavina Howard, calls him addled and expels him from school. Although Tom's father Samuel does not understand Tom and is disgusted with his behavior, Tom's mother retains her faith in her son. Soon after, Tom wins the gratitude of Mr. McCarney, the local telegraph operator, when he pulls his little son from the path of an oncoming train. The enterprising Tom gets a job selling concessions to passengers aboard the train on the Grand Trunk Railroad, and when the Civil War starts, Tom begins to print a paper aboard the train informing passengers about the progress of the war. When Tom unwittingly carries a bottle of nitroglycerin aboard the train and sets fire to a car when one of his chemical bottles spills, he has his ears soundly boxed and is thrown off the train by Mr. Nelson, the railroad agent. Derided by the townfolk and his father, Tom plans to run away, but decides to stay when his mother falls gravely ill. In a desperate attempt to provide the needed light for an operation to save his mother's life, Tom breaks into the general store and steals a mirror to intensify the lamp light, only to be accused of theft for his ingenuity. Tom's invention helps the doctor save his mother's life, and he finally wins recognition for his heroism when he prevents a train wreck by sending a Morse code distress message on a train whistle. Tom's inventiveness wins him the admiration of the community and earns him a job as telegraph operator on the railroad. It also earns the respect of his father, who proudly tells his wife that from now on he will be known as the father of Tom Edison.
Scenes from the Past > The Tashmoo and the City of Alpena at dock in Port Huron, Michigan, 1908. Detroit Publishing Company
Scenes from the Past > Hotel Vernier - George E. Vernier, Proprietor. Half way between Detroit and Port Huron on Lake St. Clair on the Dixie Highway at Fair Haven, Michigan. Taken from an old Detroit United Railway (DUR) map published ca. 1916-1922.
Scenes from the Past > Movie premiere of "Young Tom Edison" in Port Huron, Michigan, 1940. Released March 15, 1940, starring Mickey Rooney as young Thomas Alva Edison. Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things. From Turner Classic Movies ©database: In the early 1860's, in the town of Port Huron, Michigan, young Tom Edison is misunderstood by everyone except his mother Nancy and sister Tannie. When Tom accidentally sets off a smoke bomb in the school house cloakroom, his narrow-minded teacher, Miss Lavina Howard, calls him addled and expels him from school. Although Tom's father Samuel does not understand Tom and is disgusted with his behavior, Tom's mother retains her faith in her son. Soon after, Tom wins the gratitude of Mr. McCarney, the local telegraph operator, when he pulls his little son from the path of an oncoming train. The enterprising Tom gets a job selling concessions to passengers aboard the train on the Grand Trunk Railroad, and when the Civil War starts, Tom begins to print a paper aboard the train informing passengers about the progress of the war. When Tom unwittingly carries a bottle of nitroglycerin aboard the train and sets fire to a car when one of his chemical bottles spills, he has his ears soundly boxed and is thrown off the train by Mr. Nelson, the railroad agent. Derided by the townfolk and his father, Tom plans to run away, but decides to stay when his mother falls gravely ill. In a desperate attempt to provide the needed light for an operation to save his mother's life, Tom breaks into the general store and steals a mirror to intensify the lamp light, only to be accused of theft for his ingenuity. Tom's invention helps the doctor save his mother's life, and he finally wins recognition for his heroism when he prevents a train wreck by sending a Morse code distress message on a train whistle. Tom's inventiveness wins him the admiration of the community and earns him a job as telegraph operator on the railroad. It also earns the respect of his father, who proudly tells his wife that from now on he will be known as the father of Tom Edison.
Scenes from the Past > Movie premiere of "Young Tom Edison" in Port Huron, Michigan, 1940. Released March 15, 1940, starring Mickey Rooney as young Thomas Alva Edison. Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things. From Turner Classic Movies ©database: In the early 1860's, in the town of Port Huron, Michigan, young Tom Edison is misunderstood by everyone except his mother Nancy and sister Tannie. When Tom accidentally sets off a smoke bomb in the school house cloakroom, his narrow-minded teacher, Miss Lavina Howard, calls him addled and expels him from school. Although Tom's father Samuel does not understand Tom and is disgusted with his behavior, Tom's mother retains her faith in her son. Soon after, Tom wins the gratitude of Mr. McCarney, the local telegraph operator, when he pulls his little son from the path of an oncoming train. The enterprising Tom gets a job selling concessions to passengers aboard the train on the Grand Trunk Railroad, and when the Civil War starts, Tom begins to print a paper aboard the train informing passengers about the progress of the war. When Tom unwittingly carries a bottle of nitroglycerin aboard the train and sets fire to a car when one of his chemical bottles spills, he has his ears soundly boxed and is thrown off the train by Mr. Nelson, the railroad agent. Derided by the townfolk and his father, Tom plans to run away, but decides to stay when his mother falls gravely ill. In a desperate attempt to provide the needed light for an operation to save his mother's life, Tom breaks into the general store and steals a mirror to intensify the lamp light, only to be accused of theft for his ingenuity. Tom's invention helps the doctor save his mother's life, and he finally wins recognition for his heroism when he prevents a train wreck by sending a Morse code distress message on a train whistle. Tom's inventiveness wins him the admiration of the community and earns him a job as telegraph operator on the railroad. It also earns the respect of his father, who proudly tells his wife that from now on he will be known as the father of Tom Edison.
Scenes from the Past > First G.T.R. railroad engine into Sarnia, Ontario, Canada ca. 1850-1855 The company was incorporated on November 10, 1852 as the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada to build a railway line between Montreal and Toronto, Ontario. The charter was soon extended east to Portland, Maine and west to Sarnia, Ontario. In 1853, the GTR purchased the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railway from Montreal to the Quebec-Vermont border, and the partner company Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad through to the harbor facilities at Portland. A line was also built to Quebec, via Richmond, Quebec from Montreal in 1855, part of the much-talked about "Maritime connection" in British North America. In the same year it purchased the Toronto & Guelph Railroad Company, the latter's railway was already under construction. But the Grand Trunk Railway Company changed the original route of the T&G and extended the line to Sarnia, a hub for Chicago-bound traffic. By July, 1856 the section from Sarnia to Toronto opened, and the section from Montreal to Toronto opened in October of that year. By 1859 a ferry service was established across the St. Clair River to Fort Gratiot / Port Huron, Michigan.
Scenes from the Past > Steamer Edward B. Greene on the St. Clair River under the Blue Water Bridge, Port Huron, Michigan. Built by American Ship Building Co. Toledo, OH 1952 Vessel Name Changes Date Registry Official # FORD, BENSON 1985- 1989 U.S. 263980 BARKER, KAYE E. 1989 U.S. 263980 Lengthened from 647 feet to 767 feet at Fraser Shipyards, Inc., Superior, WI, Winter 1975-1976; documented measures changed in June, 1976 (749.33 x 70.16 x 31.25; 13899 gross - 10902 net). As EDWARD B. GREENE: Discovered to be taking water while crossing Lake Superior, week of June 21, 1976, on first voyage after being lengthened at Fraser Shipyard, Superior, WI. Lightered by the McLean Co. at the Soo and then resumed trip to Conneaut, OH. Put in to Lorain, OH, for repairs. As EDWARD B. GREENE: Encountered reduction-gear problems and arrived at the Soo for repairs on April 18, 1983 in tow of tugs CHIPPEWA and IVAN PURVIS. She departed from there April 21 with a load of taconite for Huron, OH. As EDWARD B. GREENE: Became stuck in the ice in the Huron River and required assistance of a tug before breaking free. Was on his way for winter lay-up. (Reported January 14, 1984)
Road Building Machinery, 1913.

As manufactured and sold by the Port Huron Engine and Thresher Company.
Scenes from the Past > Road Building Machinery, 1913. As manufactured and sold by the Port Huron Engine and Thresher Company.
Road Building Machinery, 1913.

As manufactured and sold by the Port Huron Engine and Thresher Company.
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