Michilimackinac Archaeology 2024 Season Wrap-Up
The 2024 archaeological field season was concluded. What did we learn?
The 2024 archaeological field season was concluded. What did we learn?
We’re halfway through the 2024 archaeological field season, and we’ve met one of our major goals for the season. Learn more:
The 65th field season of archaeology has wrapped up at Colonial Michilimackinac.
We’ve long interpreted Michilimackinac in the 1770s, toward the end of the British period of occupation. However, Michilimackinac was occupied by the French for more than 40 years. Here’s a story about its rocky beginning in this area.
We’re past the halfway point of the 2023 archaeological field season 0 let’s get an update!
The 65th consecutive season of archaeology at Colonial Michilimackinac begins!
One of the next major projects tor Mackinac State Historic Parks will be the reconstruction of a unit on the Southwest Rowhouse. To prepare, MSHP staff have been going over the archaeological records and artifacts from the 1960s, when the unit was originally excavated.
If you were able to attend the Colonial Christmas event at Colonial Michilimackinac, you experienced part of how Christmas was celebrated at the Mission of St. Ignace at Michilimackinac in 1679. An earlier Jesuit Christmas celebration resulted in the first North American Christmas Carol, the Huron Carol.
The sun sets on the Straits of Mackinac. Fires crackle in stone hearths. The smell of treats and warm beverages fill the crisp winter air. Laughter, conversation, and more can be heard emanating from inside the palisaded walls. It’s A Colonial Christmas Saturday, December 10, at Colonial Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City.