The Arches Are Brought Back to Life
In 2002, a group of volunteer citizens developed a plan to create new arches under the authority of the Genesee County Historical Society. In eleven short months the group raised enough money from businesses, nonprofits and individual citizens to have the arches rebuilt. On a cold November evening November 29,2003 seven arches were raised along Saginaw Street between six and 11 p.m. (Click here to see video of the installation.) The arches were lighted once again in that same month exactly 104 years after they were first lit on Saginaw Street. Two additional arches were added at a later time. In 2005 during the Flint Sesquicentennial, General Motors sponsored the Arch in front of the Courthouse. The Sesquicentennial Committee and Genesee County sponsored another arch in front of City Hall. Both were installed on May 12, 2008.