The building on Main Street

Michigan · United States · Road

In the late forties this was Bill's, or Will's Place. The owner ran drink on the side and was killed in the basement.

This building at Port Huron, Michigan traded in the late 1940s as Bill's Restaurant, or Will's Place depending on who is remembering.

The owner ran drink on the side. He was killed in the basement, and everyone locally has always assumed the two facts are connected.

No record of the case has been produced here and no name survives with it, so it should be read as what the town has passed down rather than as an established fact.

Port Huron sits on the St Clair River directly opposite Canada, which made it one of the busiest smuggling points on the whole border during and after Prohibition. Boats crossed nightly and the trade did not stop when the law changed.

A former employee working there in about 1987, when the premises traded under another name again, was closing up one night and reported what happened.

The building is a working shop.

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Where is The building on Main Street located?

The building on Main Street is in Michigan, United States.