Some people never make it across the Mackinac Bridge and into the Upper Peninsula. But, then again, why would you when you could just go to Mackinac Island instead?
That's the destination of many visitors every year, including a reporter from the Columbia Tribune.
Excerpt: The island was a vacation spot even in days of the Woodland Indians, who used the area in the summer as a fishing source. They called it "the home of the fish." Europeans were led to the spot by Father Jacques Marquette, who established a mission there in 1671. The British took over from the French in 1761 after winning the Seven Years' War and built a fort here during the American Revolution. The American Colonists got it after the war, lost it again during the War of 1812, and again gained it in the peace negotiation.
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Source: Columbia Tribune
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