Port Hope, MI

Port Hope is a village in Huron County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 293 residents. The village is within Rubicon Township. In 1851, William Stafford, while living in Lexington, bought the first parcel of land in what is now Port Hope, with Reuben Dimond. Stafford County Park is the site of softball tournaments and recreation activities throughout the summer, the 38-acre park also offers all the campground conveniences. A national historic site, the Sawmill chimney erected in 1858 graces the waterfront adjacent to a large enclosed pavilion. Port Hope Schools, which had been in operation since 1925, closed its doors in the spring of 2015.

Port Hope students in grades 6–12 now get their education in Kinde, as the local school board voted in 2014 to contract educational services from North Huron Schools. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Port Hope, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Port Hope, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. Later, Stafford and William Southard invested in buying up forty-acre parcels from the government.