>Maybe having a flag out in Port Huron means something else?
Lots of habbenings at Port Huron this year PIC RELATED
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/media-releases/all?field_date_release_value%5Bmin%5D%5Byear%5D=&field_date_release_value%5Bmin%5D%5Bmonth%5D=&field_date_release_value%5Bmin%5D%5Bday%5D=&field_date_release_value%5Bmax%5D%5Byear%5D=&field_date_release_value%5Bmax%5D%5Bmonth%5D=&field_date_release_value%5Bmax%5D%5Bday%5D=&field_newsroom_type_tid_1=54&body_value=port+huron
What about Port Huron and Awans? Any connections there? Digging…just thinking out loud
>The last recorded owner to this possession is Cecelia Smith.
Smith …isn't that our luck….that narrows it down.
Moar on Port Huron building…
The Lawyer located in the building -
"He served as a member of the Board of Directors and President of Child and Family Services of Michigan, Thumb Area Branch"
Digg on Child and Family Services of Michigan
Tracing Our Roots
Child and Family Services of Michigan had its earliest beginning in 1883 in Illinois. Chicago Reverend Martin Van Arsdale was convinced that there was a better way to provide for homeless children than through the orphanage or children's home. He and his wife believed that every child was entitled to the security of a family, home and the love of parents. They knew that good homes could be provided if the right methods were found to bring children and childless homes together. As a result, the American Educational Aid Association was founded, with the objective of developing a solution to the child welfare issue.
Historical Photo - Child & Family Services
Similar movements in other states resulted in the establishment of a Federation of Aid Associations or Societies in Chicago. In 1891 Michigan became the fifth member, when Dr. Amos Barlow of St. Joseph was appointed as the first Michigan Superintendent of The American Educational Aid Association (incorporated 1893). Joseph Watkins, having become interested in the purposes of the young agency, donated two large lots on the outskirts of St. Joseph in Berrien County and in 1894 a "Receiving Home" for children was built. Initially, all children were brought to the Receiving Home to be cared for until permanent arrangements for their future could be made. The ideals of this new organization became more sharply defined and, in 1895, its name was changed to the Michigan Children's Home Society to better emphasize the non-institutional nature of the program.
Dedicated to the conviction that a child's successful development depends upon loving family care, adoption and foster care services were established as alternatives to orphanages. Since that time the agency and/or its member agencies have been licensed annually to receive, care for and place children in accordance with state law.
https://www.cfsm.org/about-us/our-history
Lady of Maccabees also had a tie to child services
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Bina Mae West at age 18, at Capac High, became a teacher and assistant principal. By the time she was 20, she won a seat on the Board of County School Examiners, one of the first women in Michigan to hold elected office. One day she attended a picnic with her aunt that was sponsored by the Maccabees, a fraternal benefit society led by Port Huron native Nathan Boynton. Such societies offered social and self-improvement activities as well as life and disability insurance at a time when neither was common. Benefit societies were a marvelous innovation with a fundamental flaw: They were for men only.
On the spot, she decided she would change that. Her motivation was two of her best pupils, whose mother had died without insurance, and their father had placed the children with well-to-do families to care for the children but the daughter was a domestic servant and the son a stable boy. As West saw it, the youngsters had been torn from their family and denied a formal education because life insurance was unavailable for women.
http://lostinmichigan.net/ladies-maccabees-building-port-huron/