Originally inhabited by the Wyandot Indians, who were drawn to the area for the great fishing and sugar maple trees. The US history of the area really starts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when the area was offered to the people of Connecticut after British raiders took their land during the American Revolutionary War. A trader, trapper, and interpreter named John Baptiste Flemmand was the first white settler of this region, and established a trading post in 1805.
The Township of Huron was established just a few years later in 1809, followed by Huron Village in the 1820’s. The village quickly became a major shipbuilding center in the 1830s, and when the Lake Eire Railroad was put in a half century later, Huron’s port was greatly expanded. The port is still in use today.