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| This
date in Michigan History: March
3, 1875 |
| Mackinac Island National
Park is created. |
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Just
three years after creating Yellowstone National Park—the nation's
first national park—Congress made Mackinac Island the nation's second
national park. Twenty years later, the park was given to Michigan and
became the first Michigan State Park.
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