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Fort Holmes, Mackinac Island, Mich.
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FORT HOLMES
Highest point on the island 325 feet above
the Straits and 168 feet above Fort Mackinac.
Built by the British soon after the capture of
Fort Mackinac, July 17, 1812. British named
it Fort George, after the reigning English King
George III, renamed by the Americans Fort
Holmes, after Major Andrew Hunter Holmes,
2 who was killed in the battle of Mackinac
Island, August 4, 1814, in an attempt to take
the fort from the British. The block house,
central feature of the fort was destroyed by
the Americans after the war, but was later
restored and was destroyed by fire in 1933.
Restored to its original form by the Mackinac
Island State Park Commission, 1936.
G. H. WICKMAN, MACKINAC ISLAND, MICH.-MADE IN U. S. A
