Corridor to the World

Historical marker location:

Copper Harbor, Michigan

( Marker is on Brockway Mountain Drive, 4 miles west of Gratiot Street (State Highway 26).)

Wild, cold, and untamable, Lake Superior is also a working waterway.

The first European settlement in Michigan was founded by French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac in 1701. He established the settlement of Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (later known as Detroit), which became an important trading post and military stronghold for the French and later the British.