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Fort Michilimackinac

Archaeological site in Michigan, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac; it was built on the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan in the United States. Built around 1715, and abandoned in 1783, it was located along the straits that connect Lake Huron and Lake Michigan of the Great Lakes of North America. A reconstruction of the fort is preserved as the main feature of Colonial Michilimackinac Historic State Park.

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“Fort Michilimackinac” enters the record as archaeological site in Michigan, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fort, Michilimackinac and Archaeological can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fort Michilimackinac” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.