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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11HG_fort-holmes_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
Highest point on the island, 325 feet above the straits and 168 feet above Fort Mackinac.
Built by the British soon after the capture of Fort Mackinac, July 17, 1812. British named it Fort George, after the reigning English King, George III. Re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11HF_fort-holmes_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
Here in 1812, on the island's highest point, a blockhouse and stockade were built by the British and named Fort George. It was the bulwark of British defenses in 1814 when the American attack was repulsed. After the war the Americans renamed the p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNI0_round-island-lighthouse_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
The Round Island Lighthouse, seen south of this site, was completed in 1895. Operating under the auspices of the United States Government, this facility was in continuous use for fifty-two years. It was manned by a crew of three until its beacon w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNDT_historic-fort-mackinac_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
Mackinac Island has been called the most historic spot in the Middle West. Fort Mackinac was first built by the British in 1780-81. It was not until 1796, thirteen years after the end of the Revolutionary War, that the British relinquished this fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNCR_american-fur-company-store_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
On June 6, 1822, Alexis St. Martin (1804-1880), a French Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the American Fur Company Store located on this site. Dr. William Beaumont (1786-1853), the Fort Mackinac post surgeon, nursed St. Martin back to h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNCJ_mission-church_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
This is one of Michigan's oldest Protestant churches. It was built in 1829-30 by the Presbyterian flock of Rev. Wm. M. Ferry, founder in 1823 of a nearby Indian mission. Robert Stuart and Henry Schoolcraft were lay leaders. About 1838 private owne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNCI_skull-cave_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
According to tradition this is the cave in which the English fur-trader Alexander Henry hid out during the Indian uprising of 1763. The floor of the cave, he claimed, was covered with human bones, presumably Indian.