At the Straits of Mackinac in Mackinaw City, Fort Michilimackinac State Park preserves a strategic upper Great Lakes site where military power, trade, and travel converged. Its centerpiece, Colonial Michilimackinac, reconstructs the 1715 French fur-trading village and fort later occupied by the British. The site’s history reaches back to a 1671 Jesuit mission and reflects shifting French and British control. In 1763, during Pontiac’s Rebellion, Ojibwe attackers entered the fort through a lacrosse ruse and killed most of the British inhabitants before the British regained the post. Abandoned in 1781, the site is now a major historical museum and nationally significant archaeological site.