St. Ignace

St. Ignace is a Michigan historical marker in Mackinac County, dedicated 1957.

110 N. Main Street, St. Ignace

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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.

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Historical maps covering this location

1733 · A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1854 · A map of the surveyed part of Michigan / by John Farmer ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1925 · Rand McNally Official 1925 Auto Trails Map: Special Around Lake Michigan (The Chicago… (University of Chicago Library, Mapping Chicagoland · CC BY-NC 4.0, used by permission)
Historic Michilimackinac, the Straits of Mackinac area .... Michigan / design and… (University of Michigan Library)

Colton's Michigan (1874), 1874, covering the location of St. Ignace, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Colton's Michigan (1874), 1874, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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