St. Ignace
Pere Marquette established in 1671 the Mission of St. Ignace. French troops soon after built Fort Buade. The state’s second oldest white village guarded the straits while serving as the most important French fur post in the Northwest. By 1706 both the fort and mission were abandoned. Only in the nineteenth century did lumbering and fishing revive the town.
University of Michigan LibraryUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesHanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Marker data: Michigan History Center
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