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Location of St. Joseph County in Michigan. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Joseph County, Michigan.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Joseph County, Michigan, United States.
The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, lit. ' Pilgrimage of Compostela '; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), [1] or in English the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
Captain Pouré took Fort St. Joseph by surprise on 12 February 1781 by racing across the frozen river and taking the fort before the defenders, who consisted solely of a Canadien trader named Duquier and several of his employees, could go to arms. [6] He had the Spanish colors raised and claimed Fort St. Joseph and the St. Joseph River for Spain.
St. Joseph was founded after 1874 by its first Catholic pastor, Father Louis-Marie Mollier. [2] Its inhabitants were originally predominantly Roman Catholics of French American heritage. [3] St. Joseph had a post office between 1878 and 1901. [4]
Fort Miami was a fort on the bank of the St. Joseph River at the site of the present-day city of St. Joseph, Michigan, in the United States.. It was established in November 1679 by a band of French explorers led by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on the banks of what was then called the River Miami as a mission and Indian trading outpost.
St. Joseph Shrine (formerly St. Joseph Oratory and St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church), founded in 1855, is a historic German Catholic church located at 1828 Jay Street in the Eastern Market–Lafayette Park neighborhood area just outside downtown Detroit, Michigan, on the city's central east side.
As of the census [1] of 2000, there were 3,999 people, 1,325 households, and 1,004 families residing in the township. The population density was 111.7 inhabitants per square mile (43.1/km 2).
St. Joseph Island is in the northwestern part of Lake Huron.It is part of the Canadian province of Ontario.At 365 km 2 (141 sq mi) in area, it is the sixth largest lake island in the world; the second largest island on Lake Huron, following Manitoulin Island; and the third largest of all the islands on the Great Lakes, trailing Manitoulin and Lake Superior's Isle Royale.