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The John Johnston House is a private house located at 415 Water Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 [ 1 ] and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1958.
[4] Johnston was considered the first permanent European-American settler in Sault Ste. Marie. [5] The Johnstons' cedar log house on Water Street in Sault Ste. Marie was built in 1796 in a French colonial style. [6] When their eldest daughter Jane married Henry Schoolcraft, the US Indian agent, the Johnstons built an addition for them to live ...
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The company, Le Sault de Sainte Marie, will be in charge of maintaining the houses, custodial services and security. The commission also approved $32,650 for operations to restore the houses after ...
Sault Ste. Marie: The original section of this house was built by fur trader and Sault pioneer John Johnston in 1815, after his first house was burned by American troops in retaliation for Johnston's aid of British forces in the War of 1812. Johnston built an 1822 addition for his daughter Jane and her husband Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1822. In ...
Ozhaguscodaywayquay ultimately decided that Johnston was the kindly white man she had seen in her "vision quest" when she was 13, and it was her destiny to marry him. [3] Later in 1793 they moved east, settling at Sault Ste. Marie in present-day Michigan where they built a log-home that was the largest in the region. [4]
Sault Ste. Marie was settled by mostly French colonists in 1668, making it the oldest city in Michigan. [5] Sault Ste. Marie is located along the St. Marys River, which flows from Lake Superior to Lake Huron and forms part of the United States–Canada border.
It was controlled by Britain or France until after the War of 1812, when the border between Canada and the United States was fixed at the St. Marys River. As settlement of Michigan's Upper Peninsula increased, Sault Ste. Marie grew, due to its strategic location on the portage route around the rapids. This was accelerated by the 1840s copper ...