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"Cass Cliff" Named by the Michigan Historical Commission And Mackinac Island State Park Commission In honor of Lewis Cass Teacher - Lawyer - Exporer Soldier - Diplomat - Statesman Born October 9th, 1782 …
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From 1923 to 1970, William C. Greany, "the Major," was scoutmaster of the Detroit Area Council Troop 194. In 1983 he was appointed Special Eagle Scout Administrator of Mackinac Island Scout Service Camp and for thirty years played a sig…
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Nicolet Watch Tower In Honor of John Nicolet Who in 1634 passed through the Straits of Mackinac in a birch-bark canoe and was the first white man to enter Michigan and the Old Northwest Erected on behalf of the State of Michig…
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Scout Barracks In 1929, Park Commissioner Roger Andrews invited eight Eagle Scouts, including future President Gerald Ford, to serve as the "Governor's Honor Guard" and tour guides at Fort Mackinac. Scouts raised and lowered th…
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The Post Cemetery is the final resting place for Fort Mackinac soldiers, their families and local officials. Although the origin of the cemetery is lost in history, local lore from the nineteenth century suggests that both American and British Wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20TY_grand-hotel_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
Opened on July 10, 1887, the Grand Hotel was built by the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Michigan Central railroads and the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company through the efforts of Sen. Francis B. Stockbridge. It is built of Michigan white …
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On September 6, 1943, Michigan's Republican United States Senator, Arthur H. Vandenberg, chaired the meeting of the Post War Advisory Council. Republican National Committee Chairman, Harrison Spangler, created the council to draw up a foreign po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20TW_island-house_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
Constructed for Charles O'Malley about 1852, this building was one of the first summer hotels on Mackinac Island. Captain Henry Van Allen, a Great Lakes Skipper, purchased the hotel in 1865. He later moved it from the beach to its present locati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TGE_british-landing-historical_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
Here, during the night of July 16-17, 1812, a small force of British regulars and several hundred voyageurs and Indian allies from St. Joseph Island landed. They occupied a height that overlooks Fort Mackinac and demanded its surrender. Lt. Porter…
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In 1670, Jesuit Father Charles Dablon founded a birchbark mission chapel on Mackinac Island. The following year, Father Jacques Marquette relocated the mission at Saint Ignace. Abandoned in 1706 and restablished at Fort Michilimackinac around 1715…
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