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Background. The Sturgis Dam was the first municipal water power plant built in Michigan. [1] It is currently named after the city who owns it and paid for its construction. The dam is about 17 miles (27 km) away from the city of Sturgis which owns and operates the plant. The citizens of Sturgis passed a bond for a cost of $190,000 (equivalent ...
The Prairie River is a small river that flows 54 miles (87 km) [2] through Branch and St. Joseph counties in Michigan. The river rises at 41°48′20″N 85°00′54″W in northern Kinderhook Township in Branch County, and flows west-northwest into the St. Joseph River at 41°54′45″N 85°38′21″W just south of the city of Three Rivers ...
Fort Miami (Michigan) Coordinates: 42°6.655′N 86°28.939′W. 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 ...
26-27540 [1] GNIS feature ID. 1626271 [2] Fawn River Township is a civil township of St. Joseph County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,587 at the 2020 census. [3] The township is named for the Fawn River .
The Moccasin Bluff site (also designated 20BE8) is an archaeological site located along the Red Bud Trail and the St. Joseph River north of Buchanan, Michigan.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and has been classified as a multi-component prehistoric site with the major component dating to the Late Woodland/Upper Mississippian period.
St. Joseph Swing Bridge. Coordinates: 39.7534°N 94.85831°W. The Swing Bridge from the north. It is almost always in the "open" position. The St. Joseph Swing Bridge (also known as the St. Joseph Union Pacific Bridge and the St. Joseph-Elwood Bridge) is a Union Pacific Railroad truss Swing bridge connecting St. Joseph, Missouri, and Elwood ...
The US 12–St. Joseph River Bridge is a three-span camelback bridge in Mottville, Michigan, that carried U.S. Route 12 across the St. Joseph River. Built in 1922, it is the fourth bridge to cross the river at this location. It has served as a pedestrian bridge since 1990 when a new bridge opened alongside to carry the highway.
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 .