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The fort and grounds operate, as of 2024, as part of Colonial Michilimackinac Historic State Park]] in Mackinaw City, a major component of the Mackinac State Historic Parks. Interpreters, both paid and volunteer, help bring the history to life with music, live demonstrations and reenactments, including musket and cannon firing demonstrations.
Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post in the Great Lakes of North America.Built around 1715, it was located along the southern shore of the strategic Straits of Mackinac connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, at the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan in the United States.
Fort Michilimackinac fell to an Ojibwa attack during the Native American uprising of 1763, sometimes called Pontiac's War. [6] It was reoccupied by the British in September 1764. In 1780, during the American Revolution , British commandant Patrick Sinclair moved the British trading and military post to Mackinac Island , which was held by the ...
Mackinac Island (/ ˈ m æ k ə n ɔː / MAK-ə-naw, locally / ˈ m æ k ə n ə / MAK-ə-nə; French: Île Mackinac; Ojibwe: Mishimikinaak ᒥᔑᒥᑭᓈᒃ; Ottawa: Michilimackinac) is an island and resort area, covering 4.35 square miles (11.3 km 2) in land area, in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Charles de Langlade was born in 1729 at Fort Michilimackinac, New France to Domitilde, [3] the daughter of an Ottawa chief and sister of Nissowaquet, who became the Ottawa war chief. [5] Charles's father was her second husband, Augustin Langlade (Augustin Mouet, sieur de Langlade), a French-Canadian fur trader .
Park units include Mackinac Island State Park including Fort Mackinac and certain properties within the historic downtown of Mackinac Island, Michigan; Colonial Michilimackinac including Fort Michilimackinac and Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse; and Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park. It is assigned to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
The lighthouse is part of Fort Michilimackinac State Park in the village of Mackinaw City just east of the Mackinac Bridge. The lighthouse was constructed in 1892 along the Straits of Mackinac at the junction of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. It was deactivated in 1957 and currently serves as a museum. [7] [8] [9]
Fort Michilimackinac State Park [9] Emmet, Cheboygan: 37 acres 15 ha: 1904: Straits of Mackinac: Includes Colonial Michilimackinac and Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse: Mitchell State Park: Wexford: 660 acres 270 ha: 1920: Lake Mitchell, Lake Cadillac: Muskallonge Lake State Park: Luce: 217 acres 88 ha: 1956: Lake Superior: Muskegon State Park ...