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Colonial Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, MI

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Colonial Michilimackinac

A reconstructed 18th-century fort at the Straits of Mackinac where costumed interpreters give live demonstrations.

102 W Straits Ave · Mackinaw City, MI

About Colonial Michilimackinac

Colonial Michilimackinac is a reconstructed fort and fur trading post, built by the French around 1715 and held by the British from 1761, at the tip of Michigan's lower peninsula. You walk inside the palisade past the Church of Ste. Anne, the King's Storehouse and rowhouses, while interpreters give demonstrations and reenactments. Archaeologists have dug at the site every summer since 1959, and the Mackinac Bridge rises just beside it.

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