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The township is located in the eastern part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 18 miles (29 km) south of Sault Ste. Marie and 33 miles (53 km) north of St. Ignace. According to the US Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 120.9 square miles (313.2 km 2 ), of which 119.7 square miles (310.1 km 2 ) is land and 1.2 square miles (3.1 km ...
Michigan's first NHLs were designated on October 9, 1960, when three locations were chosen. The latest designation was made on January 13, 2021. Eleven Historic Landmarks in Michigan are more specifically designated National Historic Landmark Districts, meaning that they cover a large area rather than a single building. [4]
Kincheloe is at the eastern end of Kinross Charter Township, just east of Interstate 75 (I-75) and about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Sault Ste. Marie and 37 miles (60 km) north of St. Ignace. It is on the area formerly occupied by the Kincheloe Air Force Base, which covered 7,265 acres (29.40 km 2).
A new school site on the base was chosen by the nearby Rudyard Township's school system. Since the base was within Kinross Township, the Kinross Township school system decided to annex itself to the Rudyard Township schools, sending area children to the new school on the base. [2] With the move, the Kinross school closed in 1960. [3]
The Manistique area in mid-1936; US 2, denoted by a thick red line, runs east–west through the area north of its current routing, which is shown as a dashed line. The Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD) [d] changed the routings and designations of the highways around Cooks, Thompson and Manistique in the mid-1930s.
On September 25, 1959, Kinross AFB was officially renamed Kincheloe Air Force Base in honor of the late Captain Iven Kincheloe, a native of Cassopolis in southwestern Michigan. [4] On 7 September 1956, Kincheloe became the first pilot to climb above 100,000 feet (30.5 km), as he rocketed to a peak altitude of 126,200 ft (38.5 km) in the Bell X ...
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources lists the park among thirteen state parks established in 1920 following creation of the Michigan State Parks Commission in 1919. [2] Land for the park was donated to the city of Harrison in 1900 by a lumber company, then transferred to the state in 1922. The state park was dedicated in 1927. [3]
On July 1, 1919, M-80 existed as a highway in the Lower Peninsula connecting Adrian with Somerset. [8] The highway was included in the route of US Highway 127 in 1926. The M-80 designation was then shifted to a section of highway that was previously part of M-18 near Beaverton [9] The M-80 designation was decommissioned in 1939 when the roadway was transferred back to local control.