Mackinac Island, Michigan
Mackinac Island, Michigan City of Mackinac Island Downtown Mackinac Island along M-185 Downtown Mackinac Island along M-185 Flag of Mackinac Island, Michigan Location of Mackinac Island, Michigan Location of Mackinac Island, Michigan Mackinac Island (/ m k n / mak-in-aw) is a town/city in Mackinac County in the U.S.
From 1818 until 1882 the town/city was the governmental center of county of the former Michilimackinac County, which was later organized as Mackinac County with St.
The town/city includes all of Mackinac Island and the unpopulated Round Island, which is federally owned and part of Hiawatha National Forest.
The town/city limits include all of Mackinac Island State Park, which region makes up 80% of Mackinac Island; it is governed by the Mackinac Island State Park Commission.
The town/city is served by the Mackinac Island Public School.
Mackinac Island is home to the famed Grand Hotel.
The 1980 movie Somewhere in Time was filmed here, and the town/city made an exception to allow the manufacturing company to use motorized vehicles on the island.
Mackinac Island is also noted for its many fudge shops on the island.
According to his 1887 history of the indigenous citizens s of Michigan, the citizens of Mackinac Island had been a small autonomous tribe known as Mi-shi-ne-macki naw-go.
They became affiliated with the larger tribe of Ottawa from Ottawa Island (now Manitoulin Island) situated north of Lake Huron. Two natives escaped by hiding in one of the natural caves at the island.
To memorialize this tribe, the Ottawa and Chippewa (Ojibwe) titled the island as Mi-shi-ne-macki-nong, also known as Michilimackinac by the 18th century. In 1654 Jesuit missionaries recorded French traders at the island, who were with a large party of Huron and Ottawa heading to Three Rivers.
Another trader was said to have made a canoe voyage to the island in 1665. The French colonists continued in the fur trade, which became extremely lucrative; they directed out of Montreal and established posts on Mi-shi-ne-macki-nong and throughout the Great Lakes area.
The Americans established a garrison on what they called Mackinac Island by 1782, commanded by Captain Daniel Robertson; he had command until his death in 1787.
In 1796 as a result of Jay's Treaty, the island officially became part of the United States and the Northwest Territory.
In the early 1800s Mackinac Island had a permanent populace of about 250.
After the War of 1812, the United States prohibited British fur traders from operating in US territory, cutting off some of the relations between Canadians and Native Americans on the US side.
The noted French writer Alexis de Tocqueville visited Mackinac Island in July 1831 on his tour of the United States.
In the late 19th century, Mackinac Island became a prominent summer resort destination for travelers from primary cities such as Chicago and later Detroit, as well as more distant ones.
Mackinaw Island improve was incorporated as a town/city in 1899. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.84 square miles (48.80 km2), of which 4.35 square miles (11.27 km2) is territory and 14.49 square miles (37.53 km2) is water. The City of Mackinac Island not only exists on the island of the same name, but also takes in the entirety of close-by Round Island, situated in the Straits of Mackinac immediately to the south.
The Michigan Legislature created the City of Mackinac Island in 1899 via L.A.
While all of Mackinac Island, the landform, is positioned inside the city-limits of the City of Mackinac Island, today 82 percent of the island's landmass is owned by the State of Michigan and managed by the Mackinac Island State Park Commission (MISPC).
The City has direct jurisdiction over only 18 percent of the island.
The City and the Commission work together on the many issues affecting both the City and the State Park, such as the longtime ban on most motorized vehicles on the island.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 73.8% White, 1.2% African American, 18.1% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.2% from other competitions, and 5.9% from two or more competitions.
There were 240 homeholds of which 22.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 7.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 6.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 46.7% were non-families.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 75.72% White, 18.36% Native American, 0.38% Asian, 0.19% from other competitions, and 5.35% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 18.0% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 34.4% from 25 to 44, 28.9% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The island is served by the Mackinac Island Public School.
Mackinac Island is the destination of both the annual Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac, run by the Chicago Yacht Club, and the annual Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race, sponsored by the Bayview Yacht Club of Detroit.
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan: Earliest Possible Known History of Mackinac Island.
"Local Act 437: An Act to Vacate the Township of Holmes and Village of Mackinac, in Mackinac County, State of Michigan, and to Incorporate the City of Mackinac Island in Said Mackinac County".
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Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau The City of Mackinac Island Mackinac Island Lilac Festival Municipalities and communities of Mackinac County, Michigan, United States
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