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Website. Official website. Fort Gratiot Township (/ ˈɡræʃɪt / GRASH-it) [3] is a charter township of St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 11,242 at the 2020 Census. [4] It is named for Fort Gratiot, an American fort located there off and on between 1814 and 1879.
Built. 1814. (1814) NRHP reference No. 80004069 [1] Added to NRHP. April 14, 1980. Fort Gratiot / ˈɡræʃɪt / was an American stockade fort in Fort Gratiot, Michigan, in Saint Clair County, Michigan. The former location of the fort was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
In 1688 the French abandoned this fort. The site was incorporated into Fort Gratiot in 1814. A park has been established at the former site of the fort. Fort Gratiot Light. The Fort Gratiot Lighthouse was built in 1829 to replace a tower destroyed by a storm. In the 1860s workers extended the tower to its present height of 84 feet (26 m).
Contact reporter Jackie Smith at (810) 989-6270 or jssmith@gannett.com. Part of the wall in the restored Fort Gratiot Hospital, shown on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, is left uncovered to give visitors a ...
Fort Gratiot Light / ˈ ɡ r æ ʃ ɪ t /, the first lighthouse in the state of Michigan, was constructed north of Fort Gratiot in 1825 by Lucius Lyon, who later became one of Michigan's first U.S. Senators. [8] The Fort Gratiot Light marks the entrance to the St. Clair River from Lake Huron (going south) in the southern portion of Michigan's ...
Gratiot County (/ ˈɡræʃɪt / GRASH-it) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 41,761. [2] The county seat is Ithaca, [3] although its most populous city is Alma. Gratiot County comprises the Alma, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also part of the Mount Pleasant -Alma, MI Combined ...
This week, Chick-fil-A shared plans to open 25 to 30 new locally owned and operated restaurants in Michigan by the end of 2028. These new restaurants will double the chain’s footprint in the ...