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#RockSolidHistory again from Mackinac Island, Michigan!

Pictured here is the Marquette Statue, with Fort Mackinac looming on the hillside. It commemorates Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary who founded the first European settlement in Michigan – Sault Sainte Marie – which is in between Lake Superior and Lake Huron.

Later he established St. Ignace and briefly tried to live on Mackinac Island, but winter was coming and there was little food there. He also explored what is now Wisconsin and Illinois and helped found the place we now call Chicago.
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