Brief Look At Historic Michigan State
The French were exploring a great river called ‘Mississippi’ by the local Indian tribes and in 1679 they built a Fort which was built in present day St. Joseph in Michigan and was the first non-Indian community to settle in the Lower Peninsula. The French settled there permanently and started trading until 1753 when British Forces defeated them in a bloody war, the French and Indian war (1754 to 1763).
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