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The Making of America => Historic Sites => Topic started by: Rev on June 30, 2013, 02:50:22 PM

Title: Meet the one city in America where cars have been banned since 1898
Post by: Rev on June 30, 2013, 02:50:22 PM
Meet Mackinac Island, where cars have been banned since 1898. The island is the location of Mackinac Island State Park, which covers approximately 80 percent of the island and includes Fort Mackinac as well as portions of the island's historic downtown and harbor.
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Across the water is Fort Michilimackinac an 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post in the Great Lakes of North America. Built around 1715, and abandoned in 1783, it was located along the southern shore of the strategic Straits of Mackinac connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, at the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan in the United States. The site of the fort in present-day Mackinaw City is a National Historic Landmark and is now preserved as an open-air historical museum.
Title: Re: Meet the one city in America where cars have been banned since 1898
Post by: Keb on July 01, 2013, 12:44:52 PM
Mackinac Island has one car. There is a black 1962 Chevy cop car there. I saw it once back in the 80's.
Title: Re: Meet the one city in America where cars have been banned since 1898
Post by: Baldy on July 01, 2013, 04:18:10 PM
They also have an ambulance and a fire truck.  You won't see them though unless they are actually needed.  Since most of the buildings are made of wood, a fire truck is a critical item.  I get up there about every couple of years since it is only a 3 hour drive + a 20 minute boat ride away.  Truly a peaceful place especially after the last ferry leaves for the day and only those staying overnight and the workers are around.