Fort St. Joseph
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Fort St. Joseph is a historic site in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 179 m. The nearest named place is The "John S. Martin", a historic site 0.1 miles away.
The story
Fort St. Joseph was a fort established in 1686 by Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut for New France. Erected on the St. Clair River, the fort was intended to prevent English trade with native tribes. In 1687, about two hundred coureurs de bois, five hundred Algonquian, Henri de Tonti, Nicholas Perrot, Oliver Morel de La Durantaye, and thirty French soldiers gathered there under Marquis de Denonville's orders to prepare for an attack on the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy during the Iroquois Wars. With a lack of supplies and no orders from the governor, the fort's commander, Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahontan, Baron de Lahontan, burned Fort St. Joseph on August 27, 1688, and moved to Michilimackinac. According to historian Reuben Gold Thwaites, the action caused "no disadvantage" to New France.
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Wikidata Q3078049, matched on coordinates and name (228 m apart).
What the record says
- Material
- metal
- Inscription
- Built near here in 1686 by the French explorer Duluth, this fort was the second white settlement in lower Michigan. This post guarded the upper end of the vital waterway joining Lake Erie and Lake Huron....
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Gratiot Park: 0.2 mi
- Amerindians Sculpture Park: 0.3 mi
- Thomas Ediison Parkway: 0.3 mi
- Waterfront Park: 0.4 mi
- Fort Gratiot Light Station: 0.4 mi
- Dead End Woods Preserve: 3.8 mi
- Michigan Road Preserve: 3.9 mi
- Sharon Rose Leonatti Memorial Plant Preserve: 4.2 mi
- Peltier Beach Ridge Sanctuary: 6.1 mi
- Galbraith Plant Preserve: 6.2 mi
- The "John S. Martin": 0.1 mi
- Great Storm of 1913 and Sailors Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Young Thomas Edison statue: 0.2 mi
- Robert Earl Campbell: 0.3 mi
- Fort Gratiot: 0.4 mi
- Thomas Edison Depot Museum: 0.1 mi
- Huron Lightship: 0.8 mi
- Port Huron Museum: 2.0 mi
- Marysville Historical Museum: 6.8 mi
- Sled Museum: 6.8 mi
- Point Edward: 0.4 mi
- Frog Point: 13.8 mi
- Painted Rocks: 9.6 mi
- Palmer Park Arch: 12.7 mi
- Adair Rest Area 909: 18.7 mi
- Former Richmond Rest Area 910 - CLOSED: 23.2 mi
- Fort Gratiot Light: 0.4 mi
- Canatara Beach: 1.1 mi
- Mill Creek Falls: 21.0 mi
When to go
Light through the year
The recorded facing catches the sunrise.
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:05 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 05:51 | 20:30 | 21:13 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:52 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:59 | 16:12 | 16:59 |
Local time (America/Toronto).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 35 | 46 | 58 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 41 | 31 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Port Huron, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/10181005778
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