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A white clapboard church with a square tower and open belfry topped by a weathervane, standing behind a picket fence on Mackinac Island around 1900, with a wooded hillside and a large hotel building behind it.

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Mission Church: Michigan's Oldest Surviving Church Building

Mission Church on Mackinac Island was finished in 1829 and is Michigan's oldest surviving church building. The island has an older congregation, Ste. Anne's, but it…

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