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Fort Wilkins Historic State Park is a historic preservation and public recreation area operated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources at Copper Harbor, Michigan. [3] The park preserves the restored 1844 army military outpost, Fort Wilkins, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [4]
Fort Wilkins Historic State Park is located on US 41 in Copper Harbor, Michigan. [4] The fort was built in 1844, and provided order and protected the Keweenaw's copper resources during the Civil War. [4]
The U.S. Army first occupied Fort Wilkins in 1844, help with local law enforcement and to keep the peace between miners and the local Ojibwas. The fort was abandoned in 1846, and reoccupied only temporarily from 1867-1870. It is now a Michigan state park. 17: George M. Cox: George M. Cox
The Copper Harbor Light is a lighthouse located in the harbor of Copper Harbor, Michigan USA on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan inside Fort Wilkins Historic State Park. [3] [1] [4] It is a Michigan State Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This is a list of Michigan state parks and related protected areas under the jurisdiction or owned by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Parks and Recreation Division. A total of 104 state parks, state recreation areas and trail state parks currently exist along with eight other sites as well as 16 state harbors on the Great Lakes .
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Thousands of Americans and immigrants moved to the area during the mining boom, prompting the federal government to create Fort Wilkins near Copper Harbor to maintain order. The first wave were the Cornish from Great Britain, with centuries of mining experience; followed by Irish, Germans, and French Canadians.
The reconstruction of Fort Michilimackinac is a state park and ongoing archaeological site. Fort Miami, at St. Joseph, Michigan, a stockade built by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, in use from late 1679 to 1680; Fort de Buade, in 1683 the Jesuit mission at St. Ignace was fortified, Fort de Buade was built in 1690 and was used until 1701