Michilimackinac - a region in North America stretching around the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Huron and Michigan. The first settlers in this area used this term for the entire area around Lake Huron, Michigan and Upper Lake. Today the term refers exclusively to Michigan in the United States. Michilimackinac was the original name of today's Mackinac County.
These areas - while the first Europeans came here - inhabited the Indian tribes of Ojibwa and Ottawa. The first white people who began to arrive here, beginning in 1612, were Frenchmen. They also established the first commercial (trade) and Catholic missions in this area. One of the oldest, named Saint-Ignace (named after St. Ignatius), was located on the north side of the strait, at what is now called Point Iroquois, near St. Ignace. Ignace. The mission was founded in 1671 by the Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette. The village that was created around the mission was called Mackinac or Michilimackinac. Later American settlers called it Old Michilimackinac or Ancient Fort Mackinac.
Later, the French built on the south side of the strait the settlement and Michilimackinac fort. This fort became the main trading center, attracting Indians from all over the Great Lakes. When in 1763 Britain overcame France in the war on the colony, its armies occupied the fort and the entire territory. Fort Michilimackinac was the victim of the Djibouti attack during the Pontiak Indian uprising that same year, but was re-occupied by the British a year later (1764). In 1780, during the American War of Independence, the British commandant Patrick Sinclair moved the trade and fort to Mackinac Island, and Fort Michilimackinac was abandoned.
Today, Fort Michilimackinac is a tourist attraction and is an active archaeological site. Bibliography
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