Edison Homesite

Thomas Alva Edison was seven years old in 1854 when he and his family moved to Port Huron and into a house on the Fort Gratiot Military Reservation a short distance south of here. There young "Al" conducted his first experiments in chemistry and electricity. He left Port Huron in 1863, and his family moved out of the house in 1865. Five years later, the house was destroyed by fire. Railroad tracks laid on the site protected Edison family artifacts still buried there, and when archaeologists excavated the area one hundred years later, they learned more about the young inventor's life.

Port Huron, Michigan · United States