Sacred Grounds

Sacred Grounds. . , Native American burial grounds once paralleled much of the waterfront between present-day Pine Grove Park, one mile south of here and Lakeside Beach about two miles north., William Lee Jenks, who published a history of St. Clair County in 1912, included Henry Gilman's map showing the locations of 25 mounds in Port Huron. The mounds were ancient at least a thousand years old., Along with skeletal remains of the dead, archeologists in the 1870s uncovered pottery shards, clay smoking pipes, flint chips and tools such as stone hammers and net sinkers., Archeologists also found hundreds of fish and animal bones, suggesting the Indians lived in a land of bounty that left plenty of free time for mound building., Wilbert Hinsdale, also known as "the Father of Michigan Archaeology" wrote, "How long the Indians had been in America before the arrival of Columbus, and how they got here, is one of the great puzzles that confronts us. It is really astounding how little we know."