St. Ignace Mission is now a municipal park known as Marquette Mission Park. It was the site of a mission established by Père Jacques Marquette

Jacques Marquette

Father Jacques Marquette S.J. , sometimes known as Père Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan...

, and the site of his grave in 1677. A second mission was established at a different site in 1837, and moved here in 1954.

It was one of the earliest declared U.S. National Historic Landmarks, declared in 1960.

The mission church currently serves as the Museum of Ojibwa Culture.

External links

• Museum of Ojibwa Culture - official site
• Marquette Mission Park and Museum of Ojibwa Culture - Michigan Tourism