After crossing into the States at Ste.St.Marie, we crossed the Big Mac Bridge, 5 miles long and the 10th longest bridge in the world linking Michigan's 2 penisulas, across the Straits of Mackinaw. Mackinaw Island was the centre of the US fur trade and it moved $35M in 1820 alone, and it made John Jacob Aster a very rich man with his centralized management and strategic mergers. We travelled over by jetboat, leaving a huge plume behind us. We visited Fort Mackinac, site of the first War of 1812 battle, it has the original British built 1780 buildings.
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