FP 7/2 Mackinac City, MI

FP 7/2 Mackinac City, MI

Fun factoid - Mackinac Island, which you get to by taking a Ferry ⛴️ from Mackinaw City, and even though they are pronounced the same, they are spelled differently 🤔. I asked a few locals why this was the case🤷‍♀️Mackinac is French (which at one point they had ownership of) and figured whoever founded Mackinaw city wanted to be different or have British influence.

We visited Colonial Michilimackinac in Mackinaw city which is known as Fort Michilimackinac. An 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac; it was built on the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan. Built around 1715, and abandoned in 1783, it was key to trade because of its location along the Straits, which connect Lake Huron and Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. It is preserved as an open-air historical museum, with several reconstructed wooden buildings and a palisade, and is now part of Fort Michilimackinac State Park. Also, currently a geological dig is going on at the property.Baca lagi