Across the Peninsula

Across the Peninsula is a Michigan historical marker in Mackinac County, dedicated 1964.

Mackinac County · dedicated 1964 · Roadside Park on US-2, just west of St. Ignace, St. Ignace

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Old Portage Road, which ends near here, has been used to cross the peninsula since this shore was first settled. It closely parallels the Indian trail which was the way of the trapper and traveler in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

what this marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years here

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