Fort de Buade

Fort de Buade is a Michigan historical marker in Mackinac County, dedicated 1958.

Municipal Building State Street, St. Ignace

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This fort was built by the French near here within a decade after Marquette had established his mission in 1671. Its name was that of the family of Frontenac, the French governor for North America. Until Detroit was founded in 1701, this was the most important French post west of Montreal. The fort’s commandant had charge of all other French forts in the West. Also known as Fort Michilimackinac, it was the first of three forts which were to bear this name in the Straits area.

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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 Fort de Buade, 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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Fort de Buade

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