History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . eIndian Point, where the church of was built, with funds comingfrom the Propagation of Faith, under thedirection of Father Bordas. FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH. Next to Mackinac Island and the SaultManistique has the distinction of havingthe earliest record of a church in UpperPeninsula. On the 9th of August 1833Father Baraga dedicated the
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . eIndian Point, where the church of was built, with funds comingfrom the Propagation of Faith, under thedirection of Father Bordas. FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH. Next to Mackinac Island and the SaultManistique has the distinction of havingthe earliest record of a church in UpperPeninsula. On the 9th of August 1833Father Baraga dedicated there a chapelto St. Vincent de Paul.^ This bark-church stood on Lot i. Section 34, Township 42,North Range 16 West, or what is todayknown as the Indian Lake Mission. Thenthe land was part of the Indian domainand likely could have been had later fromthe Government for the asking, but it waspatented to Abner Sherman on August3, 1853 and since has come into posses-sion of August C. Miller who operatesthere an extensive farm. On the old mis-sion site he has platted a Summer Resortwhich the people make a favorite campingground. Of the buildings there is noth-ing left but the few foundation-stonesupon which they had rested, the rest has. Cf. Vol. I, p. SI- INDIAN POINT CHURCH OF ST. LAWRENCE. been all carried away. The surroundingsplainly indicate that the Indians at onetime cultivated a large area of thisground. The timber is now as large asanywhere in the neighboring forest butthere are quite a number of old appletrees still living which were undoubtedlyplanted by the Indians under the tutelageof their missionaries. The old cemeteryis also in good state of preservation andhas been fenced in, some ten or twelveyears ago, by Semo Ossawinamakee, ason of the old Indian chief. 380 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF The present city of Manistique is situ-ated on the shore of Lake Michigan—three miles south of the old Indian Mis-sion. Its principal industries are lumber-ing and manufacturing of pi
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