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JAPANESE "TORRI" AT ENTRANCE TO GOVERNMENT PARK, SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH.-15
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July 25, 33.
Left mackinac on the 9,159. Inflrat
for St. Ignace. From here we motored to
Sault Ste. Marie. This place is the oldest
town in the U.S. west of the alleghenies
with
Co
05
the possible exception of Santa FI, New mexico. It has the distinction
being the
the first white settlement in michigan. Antoine Brule probably
londed here in 1615. Authente records show that Jeam bicolet, another
of
established a my young explorers, arrived in 1634 and the Jesuit fathers
ision in 1641. Pere Marquette made the first permanent
settlement in 1662 and in 1665 founded the first mission Church at this
place. Sault Ste. Marie, mamed Painte marie du Sault - St. Mary's at
the Falls-by Marquette has been of permanent white settlement ever since.
The British flag
was raised in 1761. bor. Bass raised the Stars & Stripes June
15, 1820. First soldiers arrived Jully 1522 in command of Col. Bugh Brady
on the site of the old Funch post. Kad lunch in this Park?
and erected Fort Brad
But Brady
1090
97.
