Mormon Kingdom

Mormon Kingdom is a Michigan historical marker in Charlevoix, Charlevoix County, dedicated 1957.

Charlevoix County · dedicated 1957 · City Dock Park, Charlevoix

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About twenty miles northwest of here is Beaver Island. In 1847 James Strang set up a colony for his followers, dissenters from the main body of Mormonism. Strang crowned himself “King James” in 1850. Hatred of the sect by non-Mormons led to the Battle of Pine River in 1853 at present-day Charlevoix. On June 16, 1856, because they hated his authoritarian rule, some of Strang’s subjects mortally wounded him. Later in the summer, mainlanders drove the Mormons from Beaver Island.

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