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Historic Mill Creek, formerly known as Historic Mill Creek State Park and Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park, is a state park, nature preserve, and historic site in the United States state of Michigan. It is run by Mackinac State Historic Parks, the operating arm of the Mackinac Island State Park.
On US-23, 4 mi SE [6: Mackinaw City, Michigan: The Campbell Site, also known as the Mill Creek Site, is the location of a saw mill and dam constructed in about 1790 to supply lumber to the frontier settlement of Mackinac Island. The site was abandoned in 1839, and is now the location of the Historic Mill Creek State Park.
Historic Mill Creek (Cheboygan County) If you're heading up to Mackinac from southern Michigan along the Lake Huron shore, you might pass the Historic Mill Creek park on your way. This 625-acre ...
Park units include Mackinac Island State Park including Fort Mackinac and certain properties within the historic downtown of Mackinac Island, Michigan; Colonial Michilimackinac including Fort Michilimackinac and Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse; and Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park. It is assigned to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
The week, Aug. 18-24, will feature special programs highlighting the grist mill, which once ground grain into flour, and how the millstones at Historic Mill Creek were hewn from “lost rocks."
This site consists of three structures: theUpton Road Bridge, one of only three remaining Parker truss bridges in Michigan, the Elsie Mill Pond Dam, a rock and earth-filled dam with a concrete cap, and Kellogg Bros. & Johnson Mill Site, the foundation and associated remains of the 1865 Kellogg Bros. & Johnson grist mill. 4
Location of Michigan within the United States. The following is a List of Michigan State Historic Sites.The register is maintained by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, which was established in the late 1960s after the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. [1]
Both of these parks, along with Historic Mill Creek State Park are under the jurisdiction of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission. Interlochen State Park was purchased by the Michigan Legislature in 1917 and was the first public park to be transferred to the Michigan State Park Commission in 1920.