A Goal Accomplished
We’re halfway through the 2024 archaeological field season, and we’ve met one of our major goals for the season. Learn more:
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We’re halfway through the 2024 archaeological field season, and we’ve met one of our major goals for the season. Learn more:
As winter snow and frigid temperatures finally give way to spring, maple sugaring season begins in northern Michigan.
Modern visitors to Mackinac Island still have a chance to see numerous reminders of the community’s heyday as a center of the Great Lakes fur trade.
Charcoal is one of the few things that we know for sure would have been produced at Michilimackinac in the 18th century. Join Michilimackinac blacksmith Justin Popa as he attempts to make charcoal the same way the historic residents of Michilimackinac would have.
After a very long wait, MSHP archaeologists were excited to remove the straw and plastic sheeting from the archaeological site and begin preparing the site for excavation.
As you may have heard, we’re currently in the process of updating the Biddle House to include the Mackinac Island Native American Museum. This new exhibit, which tells the continuing
The second half of the 2019 field season was as interesting as the first.
On August 4, 1814, war came to Mackinac Island. The island, which had been captured by the British in 1812, was now the focus of an American campaign to reclaim
The first half of the archaeology field season has been very productive. The root cellar in the southeast corner of the house has continued to be rich in information. A
