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Father Marquette National Memorial pays tribute to the life and work of Jacques Marquette, French priest and explorer. The memorial is located in Straits State Park near St. Ignace in the modern-day U.S. state of Michigan, where he founded a Jesuit mission in 1671 and was buried in 1678.
Frontenac State Park (named after Louis de Buade de Frontenac, governor of New France) Frontier ("Border" refers to its position on the Minnesota / Ontario border) Gentilly (named after Gentilly, Quebec) Glese (From the French "glaise" or clay) Grand Marais ("Big Marsh"; some speculate "Big Harbor" in founders' accent) [175]
Straits State Park was established in 1924 as a simple day park with the entrance located at the corner of Paro and Hombach street. In the mid-1940s the park was redesigned to allow for approximately 32 tent campsites along the shores of the Straits of Mackinac. Around this time, the entrance to the park changed to the corner of Paro and Church ...
Cut River Bridge is a cantilevered steel deck bridge over the Cut River in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.It is located along U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) in Hendricks Township, Mackinac County, [1] between Epoufette and Brevort, about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of St. Ignace and the Straits of Mackinac.
The St. Ignace boys basketball team is heading to the Breslin Center after earning a quarterfinal victory over Crystal Falls Forest Park on Tuesday.
The site of the first Marquette mission is now a municipal park at the northwest corner of State and Marquette Streets in St. Ignace. It is located about 300 feet (91 m) from the shore of Lake Huron. [6] The Marquette gravesite is at the southwest corner of the park, [6] and the second mission chapel is located on the park's east side.
Wawatam Lighthouse in 2022. Wawatam Lighthouse is an automated, modern lighthouse that guards the harbor of St. Ignace, Michigan, in the Straits of Mackinac. [1] [ A] [2] Originally completely nonfunctional, it was erected in 1998 by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) near Monroe, Michigan as an iconic roadside attraction at a welcome center that greeted northbound drivers on ...
A unique artistic feature built by the CCC are a series of what appear to be wooden stumps poking out of Roosevelt Lake, which are actually built out of concrete. These facilities were built about 1935, and form a subset of park's surviving CCC architecture. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]