Based on FBI crime data, Port Huron is not one of the safest communities in America. Relative to Michigan, Port Huron has a crime rate that is higher than 91% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes.
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The overall crime rate in Port Huron is 17% higher than the national average. For every 100,000 people, there are 8.83 daily crimes that occur in Port Huron. Port Huron is safer than 9% of the cities in the United States. In Port Huron you have a 1 in 32 chance of becoming a victim of any crime.
2017 population… 29,051…
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I was born and grew up there. There has always been a Huge brain drain problem. Really motivated, highly educated,entrepreneurial young people cannot come back after college and find competitive jobs, unless you are among the small number of people that are involved in longstanding family businesses. It is a classic summer beach town that appears to be thriving. In reality, only a very few people can make a good living and most make well below the national average salary. I come back every summer to visit my family. I am always amazed at how many people are truly 'stuck' and don't even try to move away. If you aren't from Port Huron, good luck getting to know the old money families. They will never ever accept you into the community. I could go on and on but enough said.
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This is by far the worst town i have ever been to There seems like the people here have nothing better to do than drugs. Instead of neighborhood watch you should have Meth Watch. Port Huron had more Meth Heads and just flat out drug users of all kinds than Detroit that pretty sad. Clean it up people its flat out disgusting lets be Honest .
From Michigan Historic Sites Online
Property Type stone building
Historic Use SOCIAL
Current Use COMMERCE/TRADE
Style Classical Revival
Architect/Builder GEORGE H. HARVEY
Narrative Description
Basically square in plan, the Neo-Classical Revival building presents a high, rusticated foundation, smooth finished ashlar limestone walls and a shallow dome. Each facade is symmetrically designed with a slightly projecting, three-bay central pavilion flanked by a single bay to each side. The main facade, which faces south, is dominated by a two-story portico featuring four free-standing Corinthian columns, a full entablature and closed pediment. The entablature continues around as the cornice for the building and is topped with a parapet wall designed to resemble a balustrade. The parapet wall hides the low pitched roof and shallow dome.
Statement of Significance
The Ladies of the Maccabees Building, built in 1906, is significant as an excellent example of Neo-Classical Revival architecture in St. Clair County and as the State headquarters of the Ladies of the Modern Maccabees. Organized in 1886 as an Axillary of the Knights of the Modern Maccabees, the Ladies of the Modern Maccabees was the oldest, largest, and most active woman's fraternal and beneficiary society in the State at the time its Port Huron headquarters was built. The building was designed to incorporate the hallmarks of the Neo-Classical Revival style rendering an impressive and monumental edifice for this pioneer woman's organization.
Period of Significance 1901-1930
Significant Date(s) 1906
Registry Type(s) 04/22/1982 National Register listed
11/16/1982 State Register listed
Knights of the Maccabees - Background, History, Ritual and Emblems
The Knights of the Maccabees was founded in 1878 in London, Ontario, Canada, extensively reorganized in 1881 and 1883, and shortened its name to "The Maccabees" in 1914. The insurance aspect of the fraternity has always been paramount. Its fraternal aspect drew on the exploits of the Jewish military genius Judas Maccabeus.
The aspects of Maccabeus's feats that appealed to the founders of the modern Maccabees were steadfastness and persistence; his wisdom in the use of power; and the fact that he seems to have been the first recorded military leader to order his soldiers to reserve a part of their spoils for the widows and orphans of their fallen colleagues.
The offices of a Tent were Commander, Lt. Commander, Knight Record Keeper, Master at Arms, Sergeant, Chaplain, Guards, Sentinel, Picket.
The Maccabees conferred three degrees: Degree of Protection, Degree of Friendship, and Degree of Loyalty.
In the Degree of Protection, the candidate was introduced to the demands of Honor, Courage, and Obedience. The candidate learned the history of Maccabee household and how it protected Judea from King Antiochus during the war of independence. To prove themselves fit to "join in the cause of humanity," the tyros had to undergo an ordeal.
In the Degree of Friendship, the Commander takes the part of Mattathias, the Lt. Commander that of Judas, the Past Commander that of John (son of Mattathias), and the Chaplain that of Eleazar (son of Mattathias). The candidate received instruction in the nature of friendship.
In the Degree of Loyalty, the dramatic work revolved around the following characters: Apelles, Mattathias, Matthathias's four sons, Judas, Soldiers, while the candidate, Sentinel, and a Knight took the parts of Jewish peasants. In keeping with the Maccabee legend of the revolt at Modin the patriarch Mattathias remained steadfast to the Jewish religion when ordered to make sacrifice to Roman gods and at great personal risk stops an apostate Jew from offering sacrifice to false gods. The lesson derived from his example was that of genuine patriotism and inculcated the duty to uphold and defend the rights of liberty and conscience when they are threatened by irresponsible power in any form. Additionally, the candidate was reintroduced to the ghost of Eleazar and finally sees the end of the rebellion.
The Knights of the Maccabees Uniform Rank was called the Mystic Circle Degree. The members of the Uniform Rank met in a body styled an armory. It was said, "The Uniform Rank is not a highter degree of Maccabeeism. Rather it is to be compared to the pioneers and skirmishers of a large army, whose duty it is to clear the way and develop the enemy, so great battles can be won by those who follow you." (Ritual of the Mystic Circle Degree, Uniform Rank (1903).) The Uniform Rank was much less dramatic than the Tent Degree's that proceeded it. The first section of the Uniform Rank degree involved the staged debate between the First and Second Guards as to whether "this candidate be merely obligated, and the regular initiation be omitted." Id. The lessons of the Uniform Rank were obedience and courage. This was taught by the Captain commanding the newly created Sir Knight to place his bare right hand into a box containing an unknown object, and to bring the "snake" inside the box to the Captain. The officers of a Maccabee Uniform Rank armory were the Captain, First Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant, Record Keeper, Assistant Record Keeper, Chaplain, First Guard, Second Guard, First Sergeant (inner sentinel), Second Sergeant (outer sentinel).
The Maccabees converted to a life insurance company in 1962. It changed its name to The Maccabees Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Domes
Port Huron, Michigan, circa 1905. "Maccabees Temple." Lodge of the fraternal order Knights of the Maccabees. Detroit Publishing glass neg.