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November 9, 2005. The St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in Michigan at the entrance to the St. Joseph River on Lake Michigan. The station was built in 1832 with the current lights built in 1906 and 1907; [1] [4] they were decommissioned in 2005. [5]
The Fawn River is a 55.4-mile-long (89.2 km) [1] river in southwest Michigan and northeast Indiana in the United States. It flows into the St. Joseph River in the city of Constantine, Michigan. The headwaters rise in a series of lakes and marshes in northern Steuben County, Indiana near Pokagon State Park, where it is known as "Crooked Creek ...
Fort Saint Joseph was a fort established on land granted to the Jesuits by King Louis XIV; it was located on what is now the south side of the present-day town of Niles, Michigan. Père Claude-Jean Allouez established the Mission de Saint-Joseph in the 1680s. Allouez ministered to the local Native Americans, who were primarily Odawa and Ojibwe .
The St. Marys River, sometimes written St. Mary's River, drains Lake Superior, starting at the end of Whitefish Bay and flowing 74.5 miles (119.9 km) southeast into Lake Huron, with a fall of 23 feet (7.0 m). [1] For its entire length it is an international border, separating Michigan in the United States from Ontario, Canada.
Vicar general of the diocese of Quebec. Memorial in Niles, Michigan. Claude Jean Allouez (June 6, 1622 – August 28, 1689) was a Jesuit missionary and French explorer of North America. [1] He established a number of missions among the indigenous people living near Lake Superior.
St. Joseph Island is located near the south easterly mouth of the St. Marys River in northwestern Lake Huron. It is the most westerly of the Manitoulin chain of islands. The island is 365 km 2 (141 sq mi) in area. On its longest - northeast to southwest - axis the island is about 30 km (19 mi) and about 20 km (12 mi) at its widest point. [55]
An old Indian portage, about two miles (3.2 km) long, stretched from this area towards the northeast to what are today Highland and Riverview cemeteries, along what were once the banks of the St. Joseph River, but now forms a bank of Pinhook Park Lagoon. The St. Joseph River drains into Lake Michigan.
L–M. Laughing Whitefish River. Leland River, also called the Carp River. Lincoln River. Little Betsie River ( Lower Peninsula of Michigan) Little Betsy River ( Upper Peninsula of Michigan) Little Black River (Cheboygan County) Little Black River (Gogebic County) Little Brevoort River.