“Cass Cliff”
Named by the
Michigan Historical Commission
And
Mackinac Island State Park Commission
In honor of
Lewis Cass
Teacher – Lawyer – Explorer
Soldier – Diplomat . . . — — Map (db m107117) HM
On Lake Shore Drive, on the right when traveling south.
At this site on June 27, 1912 Richard Collier found Elise McKenna
Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve in
Somewhere In Time
A Universal Picture
Dedicated on October 30, 1993 — — Map (db m204128) HM
On Market Street at Fort Street, on the right when traveling west on Market Street.
On June 6, 1822, Alexis St. Martin (1804-1880), a French Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the American Fur Company Store located on this site. Dr. William Beaumont (1786-1853), the Fort Mackinac post surgeon, nursed St. Martin back . . . — — Map (db m34923) HM
Arch Rock is the most dazzling example of Mackinac Island's breccia formations. It once stood as a solid mass 100 feet above the lake level. About 4,000 years ago the lake waters slowly dissolved the softer material that extended into the center of . . . — — Map (db m153180) HM
On Market Street, 0.1 miles south of Astor Street, on the right when traveling south.
Biddle House. The Biddle House is one of the oldest structures on Mackinac Island, dating to the 1780s. It is an example of piece sur piece en coulisse construction, a frame structure with a log infill fitted into slots. This French Canadian . . . — — Map (db m204427) HM
On Lake Shore Drive (State Highway 185) at British Landing Road, on the left when traveling north on Lake Shore Drive.
Here, during the night of July 16-17, 1812, a small force of British regulars and several hundred voyageurs and Indian allies from St. Joseph Island landed. They occupied a height that overlooks Fort Mackinac and demanded its surrender. Lt. . . . — — Map (db m96411) HM
On Lake Shore Drive (State Highway 185) 0.8 miles north of Mahoney Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Devil's Kitchen, a group of small sea caves or niches, is one of the youngest rock formations on Mackinac Island. This large mass of brecciated (fractured and recemented) limestone was formed about 350 million years ago. Wave action of the last few . . . — — Map (db m153170) HM
Near this spot Dr. William Beaumont United States Army made those experiments upon Alexis St. Martin which brought fame to himself and honor to American medicine — — Map (db m204408)
On Lake Shore Drive, on the right when traveling south.
"...to preserve the work of nature, to make the spring accessible, to prove a shelter in time of storm, to be a resting place for the weary, long to be remembered after leaving the beautiful Island shore."
Superintendent Benjamin Franklin Emery,
. . . — — Map (db m204209) HM
Near Fort Holmes Road, 0.5 miles south of Garrison Road.
Highest point on the island, 325 feet above the straits and 168 feet above Fort Mackinac.
Built by the British soon after the capture of Fort Mackinac, July 17, 1812. British named it Fort George, after the reigning English King, George . . . — — Map (db m204418) HM
Near Fort Holmes Road, 0.5 miles south of Garrison Road.
Here in 1812, on the island's highest point, a blockhouse and stockade were built by the British and named Fort George. It was the bulwark of British defenses in 1814 when the American attack was repulsed. After the war the Americans renamed the . . . — — Map (db m55408) HM
Alfonzo F. Howe Architect
Charles W. Caskey Contractor
Classical design that will live forever
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of Interior — — Map (db m224392) HM
On West Bluff Road at Cadotte Avenue, on the right when traveling west on West Bluff Road.
Opened on July 10, 1887, the Grand Hotel was built by the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Michigan Central railroads and the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company through the efforts of Sen. Francis B. Stockbridge. It is built of Michigan white . . . — — Map (db m107066) HM
From 1923 to 1970, William C. Greany, “the Major,” was scoutmaster of the Detroit Area Council Troop 194.
In 1983 he was appointed Special Eagle Scout Administrator of Mackinac Island Scout Service Camp and for thirty years played a . . . — — Map (db m107133) HM
Mackinac Island has been called the most historic spot in the Middle West. Fort Mackinac was first built by the British in 1780-81. It was not until 1796, thirteen years after the end of the Revolutionary War, that the British relinquished this fort . . . — — Map (db m34972) HM
On Garrison Road north of Rifle Range Road, on the right when traveling north.
Mackinac Island has long been a burial location for the Anishnaabek (Odawa, Ojibway and Potawatomi). Some of the burials on the island are more than one thousand years old. It is a common practice for the Anishnaabek to bury their dead near water . . . — — Map (db m204415)
On Main Street (State Highway 185) west of Bogan Lane, on the right when traveling west.
Indian Dormitory. The Treaty of 1836 transferred 15 million acres of Ojibway (Chippewa) and Odawa (Ottawa) land in Michigan Territory to the federal government. It also required improvements to the Mackinac Island Indian Agency, including "a . . . — — Map (db m204277) HM
On Lake Shore Drive (Main Street) (State Highway 185), on the left when traveling east.
Constructed for Charles O’Malley about 1852, this building was one of the first summer hotels on Mackinac Island. Captain Henry Van Allen, a Great Lakes Skipper, purchased the hotel in 1865. He later moved it from the beach to its present location. . . . — — Map (db m107061) HM
Originally known as the Lake View House, this is one of the oldest continuously operated hotels on Mackinac Island.
Reuben Chapman built the structure in 1858. After his death in 1860, the hotel was operated by his wife, Maria. In 1880 the . . . — — Map (db m224387) HM
Lawrence A. Young Cottage Michigan Governor’s Summer Residence 1902 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m131760) HM
On Lake Shore Drive (State Highway 185) north of British Landing Road, on the left when traveling north.
Mackinac Island's dramatic and beautiful rock formations and shoreline are its most striking geological features. These natural wonders, made of brecciated (broken and recemented) limestone, originated more than 350 million years ago when the . . . — — Map (db m153181) HM
The Union Congregational Church, affectionately called Little Stone Church, was established in 1900 by eleven charter members. Local residents and summer visitors donated funds for its construction. The cornerstone was laid on August 2, 1904. This . . . — — Map (db m224389) HM
On West Bluff Road at Cadotte Avenue, on the left when traveling west on West Bluff Road.
On September 6, 1943, Michigan’s Republican United States Senator, Arthur H. Vandenberg, chaired the meeting of the Post War Advisory Council. Republican National Committee Chairman, Harrison Spangler, created the council to draw up a foreign . . . — — Map (db m107071) HM
Father Jacques Marquette with Louis Joliet discoverer of the Mississippi River
Founder of Saint Ignace and Kaskaskia Missions and explorer Ardent and resourceful A shepherd who gave his life for the sheep.
To Nicolet-Raymbault and . . . — — Map (db m224395) HM
On Huron Street (State Highway 185 at milepost 0) at Mission Street, on the left when traveling east on Huron Street.
This is one of Michigan's oldest Protestant churches. It was built in 1829-30 by the Presbyterian flock of Rev. Wm. M. Ferry, founder in 1823 of a nearby Indian mission. Robert Stuart and Henry Schoolcraft were lay leaders. About 1838 private owners . . . — — Map (db m34913) HM
Nicolet Watch Tower
In Honor of
John Nicolet
Who in 1634 passed through the Straits of Mackinac in a birch-bark canoe and
was the first white man to enter Michigan and the Old Northwest
Erected on behalf of the
State of . . . — — Map (db m107104) HM
On Garrison Road, on the left when traveling north.
The Post Cemetery is the final resting place for Fort Mackinac soldiers, their families and local officials.
Although the origin of the cemetery is lost in history, local lore from the nineteenth century suggests that both American and British . . . — — Map (db m107102) HM
The Round Island Lighthouse, seen south of this site, was completed in 1895. Operating under the auspices of the United States Government, this facility was in continuous use for fifty-two years. It was manned by a crew of three until its beacon was . . . — — Map (db m35151) HM
On Lake Shore Drive (State Highway 185) at Church Street, on the left when traveling west on Lake Shore Drive.
In 1670, Jesuit Father Charles Dablon founded a birchbark mission chapel on Mackinac Island. The following year, Father Jacques Marquette relocated the mission at Saint Ignace. Abandoned in 1706 and restablished (sic) at Fort Michilimackinac around . . . — — Map (db m96412) HM
On Huron Road, 0.2 miles east of Fort Street, on the left when traveling east.
Scout BarracksIn 1929, Park Commissioner Roger Andrews invited eight Eagle Scouts, including future President Gerald Ford, to serve as the “Governor’s Honor Guard” and tour guides at Fort Mackinac. Scouts raised and lowered the colors . . . — — Map (db m107087) HM
On Garrison Road at Rifle Range Road, on the right when traveling north on Garrison Road.
Skull Cave is one of Mackinac Island's oldest geological formations. It is located in the base of a 30 foot high limestone stack. 11,000 years ago this stack of hard limestone was exposed, as wave erosion of the ancient lakes cut away the softer . . . — — Map (db m153176) HM
On Garrison Road at Rifle Range Road, on the right when traveling north on Garrison Road. Reported permanently removed.
According to tradition this is the cave in which the English fur-trader Alexander Henry hid out during the Indian uprising of 1763. The floor of the cave, he claimed, was covered with human bones, presumably Indian. — — Map (db m204412) HM
Near Huron Road, 0.2 miles west of Truscott Street.
During the summer of 1979 the movie Somewhere in Time was made on Mackinac Island. Starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer, the romantic fantasy tells the story of a man who wills himself back to 1912 to meet a woman . . . — — Map (db m131768) HM
Near Sugar Loaf Road, 0.8 miles west of Lake Shore Drive (State Highway 185).
Sugar Loaf stands seventy-five feet above the surrounding level and is the largest of Mackinac Island's many limestone stacks. It was originally connected to the high cliffs directly behind you. More than 11,000 years ago, the erosive power of . . . — — Map (db m153171) HM
Fort Mackinac soldiers planted a garden in this large open space in front of the fort. Vegetables such as cabbage, leeks, carrots, radishes, onion, and squash supplemented their daily diet of meat and bread. Fences around the garden protected . . . — — Map (db m224397) HM
On Lake Shore Drive (State Highway 185) north of British Landing Road, on the left when traveling north.
Every winter ice provides a vital link to the mainland. Two hundred years ago British soldiers used teams of oxen to haul men and materials across the ice when they moved Fort Michilimackinac from the mainland to the island. In the later 1800s the . . . — — Map (db m131769) HM
On Lake Shore Drive (State Highway 185) north of British Landing Road, on the left when traveling north.
Since the late nineteenth century people had dreamed of building a bridge to connect Michigan's two peninsulas. Those dreams became a reality in the 1950s when the booming postwar tourism economy and modern highway system made possible the Mackinac . . . — — Map (db m131770) HM
On Fort Street, on the right when traveling south.
Episcopal services on Mackinac Island date from 1837, when a Bishop preached in the Mission Church. For many years the congregation met in the post Chapel at Fort Mackinac and in the Court House. In 1873 a parish was organized, and in 1882 this . . . — — Map (db m204278) HM
