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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by James N.[/i] [br]Originally I'd thought to leave this particular site out of descriptions of places visited, but a couple of things changed my mind: first, I'd already shown a photo of its harbor light; and second, my ruminating about the early French presence in this region. Though there's nothing left from that period, it's certainly worth remembering. Kewaunee itself is a pleasant little villiage and county seat on Lake Michigan that well-represents the many similar small towns that dot the Great Lakes shorelines. The guidebook for a walking tour of the restored [i]Marquette Historic District[/i] of mainly late-Victorian and early Twentieth-century residences says: [i]"Kewaunee's recorded history dates back to the seventeenth century. When Jean Nicollet visited in 1634, it was the site of a large Potowotami village. Forty years later, on November 1, 1674, Father Marquette said mass in what is now Kewaunee...More than a hundred years later, in 1795, Jacques Veau, a French trader, established a trading post at the mouth of the Kewaunee River."[/i] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011104102630_IM000645edit.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 55.98 KB[/size=1] This pleasant if undistinguished park is supposedly the site of Marquette's mass; I can testify to the quality of the restaraunt! [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011104103054_IM000643edit.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 41.97 KB[/size=1] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011104103339_IM000644edit.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 47.16 KB[/size=1] Across the small harbor stands the former Coast Guard station, now private residences; nearby the old U. S. Corps of Engineers harbor tug is open for tours. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011104103816_IM000633edit.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 39 KB[/size=1] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011104104623_IM000637edit.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 51.37 KB[/size=1] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011104104057_IM000635edit.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 58.49 KB[/size=1] The small downtown seen here from a jetty contains various public buildings like the 1930's Post Office. The high hill at left would've been a good spot for the Potowotami village in good summer weather, being the higest point; it's now the site for the 1870's county courthouse. ( The cannon in front of the G.A.R. monument, known as a twelve-pounder howitzer, is one of a pair manufactured by Cyrus Alger & Co. in 1846 - 47. ) [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011104105614_IM000638edit.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 44.4 KB[/size=1] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/201110410582_IM000649edit.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 73.34 KB[/size=1] Also "downtown" is the over-a-century-old former Hotel Karsten, now the Kewaunee Inn, largely rebuilt in the 1920's after a devastating fire. [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.