Fort Michilimackinac

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Fort Michilimackinac
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Michigan State Historic Site
Location	Near Mackinac Bridge, Mackinaw City, Michigan
Built	1715
NRHP reference No.	66000395
MSHS No.	P565[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966[2]
Designated NHL	October 9, 1960[3]
Designated MSHS	February 18, 1956[1]

Colonial Michilimackinac Historic State Park
Location in Michigan Show map of Michigan Fort Michilimackinac (the United States) Show map of the United States
Location	Wawatam Township, Emmet County, Michigan, United States
Coordinates	45°47′12″N 84°44′9.52″W / 45.78667°N 84.7359778°W / 45.78667; -84.7359778
Area	37 acres (15 ha)[4]
Administered by	Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Designation	Michigan state park
Website	Official website

Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac; it was built on the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan in the United States. Built around 1715, and abandoned in 1783, it was located along the straits that connect Lake Huron and Lake Michigan of the Great Lakes of North America. A reconstruction of the fort is preserved as the main feature of Colonial Michilimackinac Historic State Park.^[4]

The present-day village of Mackinaw City developed around the site of the fort, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. It is preserved as an open-air historical museum, with several reconstructed wooden buildings and palisade, and is now part of the state park.