Tag: Mackinac Island State Park Commission

A Legal Battle at the Lighthouse

Today, visitors to Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse enter the site via the Fog Signal Building, constructed in 1906. The machinery originally housed inside powered fog whistles, and later air horns,

Dousman’s Mill – What Happened Next?

Visitors to Dousman’s Mill learn about the Campbell and Dousman families and their employees operating the saw and grist mills and farm at the site. What happened next?

New Photos of an Old Hospital

Mackinac State Historic Parks Registrar Brian Jaeschke recently acquired copies of several historic photographs of the 1860 Post Hospital at Fort Mackinac. The photographs were discovered in the digital collection