There are also several trails you can walk, which we didn’t do because it was kind of buggy the day we went.
This area is included in the regular admission.
HISTORIC MILL CREEK DISCOVERY PARK ZIP
If you have kids over four feet tall, they will enjoy the zip line, climbing wall, and canopy walk but this costs extra, even if you have the annual pass or combination ticket to visit the other Mackinac State Parks sites.įor younger kids there is a little play area that has a slide, fiberglass animals they can climb, and a little zip line. What is so great about the demonstration is they run the sawmill while you are inside and then you go and watch near the creek to see how it works from the outside. Really informative demonstration of a late 1700’s sawmill and how the first settlers of the area used to cut wood before the sawmill existed. Highlight is a reconstructed sawmill over picturesque Mill Creek.ĭon’t miss the sawpit and sawmill demonstration, which usually runs every couple of hours. Located a few miles out of town on US 31 towards Cheboygan. The North Central State Trail serves Historic Mill Creek State Park.This is kind of an overlooked attraction in Mackinac City.
A naturalist conducts talks on the animal and plant species of the nearby forested areas. In summers, costumed interpreters use antique woodworking tools to make shingles, and demonstrate a variety of other tasks common in the 1820s, and demonstrate the operation of the sawpit and sawmill. As of 2008, the park had 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of nature trails, with a small portion handicapped-accessible. 1820) was rebuilt around 1994 on the site of the original. 1790) were rebuilt in 1984 the sawmill was restored in part for the 2007 season. The Discovery Park includes approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) of the eponymous creek's watercourse as it flows downhill toward Lake Huron, but not the wetland. Mill Creek drains the Dingman Marsh, a perched wetland within Mackinaw State Forest in northwest Cheboygan County. The dig site was variously called the "Filbert Site," the "Mill Creek Site," or the "Campbell Farm Site," and was designated 20cn8. The wood is fed into the blade at 1/3 of an inch per stroke, and the infeed motion is powered by the pitman arm that powers the saw's vertical movement.Īrchaeological investigations were conducted at the site of the sawmill in the 1970s. The marks gave restoration experts information on the rake of the saw's teeth and the saw's operating speed. Saw marks on these timbers could be used to reconstruct the mill machinery so as to closely resemble the original. However, timbers cut by the original mill survived in buildings on Mackinac Island ( Mission Church and Mission House, built in the 1820s and still there today). However, global demand for beaver fur declined in the 1830s, and following Dousman's death in 1839 the sawmill and millwright's house were abandoned.Īfter the sawmill's abandonment in 1839, the original sawmill complex buildings rotted and disappeared. In 1819, Michael Dousman purchased the mill site and continued to operate it. The Mill Creek sawmill enjoyed a dominant market share of the supply of cut timbers in the Straits of Mackinac during the fur trade era, and a millwright's house was built about 1820 near the sawmill to provide a place for the mill operator to live.
In 1793 it contracted with Fort Mackinac to make repairs on the soldiers' barracks. It was originally built by Robert Campbell to supply lumber to the Straits of Mackinac, especially the frontier settlement of Mackinac Island. The original sawmill at Mill Creek operated from about 1790 until 1839.
625 acres (2.5 km 2) in size, the park is located 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Mackinaw City, Michigan on U.S. It is run by Mackinac State Historic Parks, the operating arm of the Mackinac Island State Park. Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park, formerly known as Historic Mill Creek State Park is a state park, nature preserve, and historic site in the United States state of Michigan.
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