It may be hard to imagine now, but before football, baseball, basketball and hockey became national pastimes, rowing was "second to that of no sport in the country," said the Detroit Free Press in 1870. Indeed, rowing captured headlines across the country.
Saginaw's vibrant present and bright future rests on the foundation of its rich and storied past.
First settled in 1822, the U.S. Military built Fort Saginaw where Court and Hamilton Streets now intersect.
Within a year, the military abandoned the fort. Fur traders and farmers took over the buildings, a small settlement took root and Saginaw's earliest commercial ventures sprouted.