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Upper Peninsula Sites
Father Marquette National Memorial
This memorial at St. Ignace honors Jesuit missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette who established a mission at the Straits of Mackinac in 1671. The site also overlooks the Straits and the beautiful Mackinac Bridge. . .
| Fayette Historic Townsite
On the Garden Peninsula, this abandoned 19th century iron smelting town in Fayette State Park will inspire you with its harbor, wooded and historic scenery . . .
| Fort Wilkins and the Copper Harbor Lighthouse
The most northern historic sites of the Michigan Historical Museum System are found at the tip of the Keewenaw Peninsula in Fort Wilkins State Park. Visit the fort and lighthouse that kept Michigan's early copper miners and transporters safe. . .
| Michigan Iron Industry Museum
Located near Negaunee at the site of the Carp River Forge— Michigan's first iron bloomery—the Iron Industry Museum tells the story of iron mining on the Marquette Range . . .
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Lower Peninsula Sites
Hartwick Pines Logging Museum
Walk the fragrant trails of Hartwick Pines State Park to the Logging Museum. Learn about the lives of the shanty boys who cut the trees in Michigan's virgin forests to build a nation during the 19th century . . .
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Museum
During the Great Depression the CCC boys worked in Michigan's forests. Learn about the work they did—building bridges, improving state parks, fighting forest fires . . .
| The Mann House
Visit a gentler era at this historic Victorian home in Concord. Find the rooms left as if Jessie Ellen and Mary Ida had just stepped out to the herb garden . . .
| The Sanilac Petroglyphs
Petroglyphs—ancient rock carvings—in a sandstone outcropping in Michigan's Thumb hint at the lives of the Woodland peoples. You cannot help but be awed at this outdoor "art gallery" . . .
| Walker Tavern
Then they were the Detroit-Chicago Road and the Monroe Pike and were traveled by stagecoach and wagon and on horseback. Today we call them US-12 and M-50, and at their junction you'll find Sylvester Walker's stagecoach stop for weary 19th century travelers . . .
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