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Mackinac Island State Park is located in the U.S. state of Michigan on Mackinac Island in Lake Huron just east of the Straits of Mackinac. It covers about 1,800 acres (7 km²) and 80% of the land on Mackinac Island. Mackinac National Park, later known as Mackinac Island National Park, was created in 1875, the second national park in the United States after Yellowstone National Park. In 1895, it was transferred to Michigan and became Mackinac Island State Park, the first state park in Michigan.
The park contains Fort Mackinac and Fort Holmes, other historic buildings, historic sites, and limestone caves and rock formations. The park also operates the Mackinac Island Airport.
It is one of six units of Mackinac State Historic Parks, the other units being Fort Mackinac, the historic downtown buildings of Mackinac Island, Colonial Michilimackinac, Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, and Historic Mill Creek.

War of 1812

Mackinac Island played an important role in the War of 1812 between the United States and Canada (then a British colony). Fort Mackinac, upon the island, was built by the British army during the Revolutionary War. The British later relinquished the fort to the Americans in 1796, but then built and maintained a similar fort on nearby St. Joseph Island. The two nations used their island forts in a struggle to maintain supremacy over the waters of northern Lake Huron. As one of the opening actions of the War of 1812, the British captured Fort Mackinac and maintained it as a British stronghold until the end of the war. An American attempt to recapture the fort in 1814 failed in the Battle of Mackinac Island. When the war ended with the Treaty of Ghent in 1815, the island was returned to American control.

Information centers

Soldiers' Barracks (in Fort Mackinac; admission charged)
Visitor Center (free)
Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau (free information year round)

Historic buildings

Fort Mackinac

Fort Holmes

Mission Church

Mission House

Beaumont Museum

Matthew Geary House

Benjamin Blacksmith Shop

Biddle House

Governor's Mansion (Lawrence Andrew Young Cottage)

Indian Dormitory

McGulpin House

Historic sites

Battlefield of 1814

British Landing

Cemeteries

Lime Kiln

Marquette Park

Wawashkamo Golf Course

Caves and rock formations

Arch Rock

Gitchi Manitou

Sugar Loaf

Cave of the Woods

Crack-in-the-Island

Eagle Point Cave

Skull Cave

Friendship's Altar

Sunset Rock (sometimes called Chimney Rock)

Devil's Kitchen

Robinson's Folly

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