from the 1883 Huron City Directory
transcribed by Karen Seeman
"The original town site was platted by the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, on May 10, 1880, and was named Huron, after a tribe of Sioux Indians, by Mr. Marvin Hughitt, General Manager of the N. & N. W. Road. The first plat consisted of eleven blocks, bounded by First and Third streets and Ohio and Iowa streets. Twelve blocksmore were added in the fall of 1880. In October, 1881, the second addition of eight and one-half blocks and the capitol grounds were platted. In April, 1882, twelve and one-half blocks were added, and in June the fourth addition of eight blocks was platted. On August 5, 1882, eighteen blocks more cojmpleted the fifth and last railway addition, making in all seventy blocks, including the capitol grounds. In addition to the railway additions, Hon. Geo. W. Sterling and L. B. Black have platted six blocks, lying on the line of Third street, five blocks west of the limits of the last railway addition. On June 8, 1883, G. W. Sterling platted nine blocks, commencing two blocks south of the capitol grounds, and on the west line of Dakota Avenue. Col. E. W. Foster and F. I. Fisher have nine blocks, directly opposite Sterling's addition, on the east side of the avenue. In the fall of 1881, W. J. Ennis platted six blocks, adjoining Foster & Fisher's additions on the south. In August, 1882, East Huron, lying south of Third street and one block east of Ninth street, consisting of six blocks, was platted by Pettigrew and Runkle, and on September 18th, an addition of twelve blocks was made. In 1882, F. I. Fisher plated nineteen and one-half blocks, on Sixth street and Montana. L. C. Bloodgood platted six blocks north of Sterling & Black's addition. Whipple & Walsh platted, in 1883, nine blocks on Dakota avenue and Fifteenth street. It will be seen that one hundred and fifty-three blocks have been platted, of which at least one hundred and twenty-five have been entirely disposed of by their original owners."