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Wawatam Lighthouse in 2022. Wawatam Lighthouse is an automated, modern lighthouse that guards the harbor of St. Ignace, Michigan, in the Straits of Mackinac. [1] [ A] [2] Originally completely nonfunctional, it was erected in 1998 by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) near Monroe, Michigan as an iconic roadside attraction at a welcome center that greeted northbound drivers on ...
St. Ignace (/ ˈ ɪ ɡ n ə s / IG-nəss) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Mackinac County. [6] The city had a population of 2,306 at the 2020 census. [4] St. Ignace Township is located just to the north of the city; the two are administered separately.
Early travel to Epoufette was limited to the Peter White Trail, which ran along the shoreline west from St. Ignace. Epoufette contained a stagecoach stop and regular mail service from St. Ignace. [7] Road access remained limited until the creation of M-12 in 1919. [8] In 1926, M-12 was replaced with early segments of the present-day U.S. Route ...
Mackinaw City (/ ˈ m æ k ə n ɔː / MAK-ə-naw) is a village at the northernmost point of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, United States.Divided between Cheboygan and Emmet counties, Mackinaw City is located at the southern end of the Mackinac Bridge, which carries Interstate 75 over the Straits of Mackinac to St. Ignace, in the Upper Peninsula.
The St. Ignace News is a weekly newspaper that covers events in and around St. Ignace and Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The newspaper's coverage area includes a substantial portion of the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, including the Les Cheneaux Islands summer resort area northeast of St. Ignace.
The St. Ignace Mission (French: Mission Saint-Ignace) is located in a municipal park known as Marquette Mission Park. [4] It was the site of a mission established by Jesuit priest, Father Jacques Marquette, and the site of his grave in 1677. A second mission was established at a different site in 1837, and the chapel was moved here in 1954.
The French-Canadian settlement at St. Ignace began with the Mission of Saint Ignace, founded by Father Jacques Marquette, S.J. in 1671.By 1680 it had become a considerable community consisting of the mission, a French village of a dozen cabins, a Wyandot (Huron) Indian village surrounded by a wooden palisade and an adjacent Odawa (Ottawa) village, also behind a palisade.
In 1870 the family moved to St. Ignace, where Chambers built a two-story house on State Street. [3] John Chambers Sr. died in 1890 in St. Ignace. [4] John Chambers had eight children; three of his sons, John Jr., Michael, and Patrick, opened a prosperous general store in St. Ignace in 1870 under the name "Chambers Brothers."