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Wawatam (little goose) (fl. 1762 – 1764) was an 18th-century
Odawa chief who
lived in the
northern region of present-day Michigan's
Lower Peninsula in...
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Chief Wawatam (nicknamed the Chief) was a coal-fired
steel ship that was based, for most of its
working life, in St. Ignace, Michigan. The
vessel was...
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Wawatam Township is a
civil township of
Emmet County in the U.S.
state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the
township po****tion was 711. The village...
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Wawatam Lighthouse is an automated,
modern lighthouse that
guards the
harbor of St. Ignace, Michigan, in the
Straits of Mackinac.
Originally completely...
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Archive of California. "Alternative uses of the
railcar ferry S.S.
Chief Wawatam State of
Michigan Dept. of Transportation,
State of
Michigan Dept. of Natural...
- vice-chairman of the
Beaver Club. From 1763 to 1764, he
lived and
hunted with
Wawatam of the Ojibwe, who had
adopted him as a brother. "Blessed with as many...
- employer.
Straits State Park is
located at the
south end of the city.
Wawatam Lighthouse is
located in the city's harbor. The
harbor also is a port for...
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known as the
owner and operator, from 1911
until 1984, of the SS
Chief Wawatam, an
icebreaking train ferry. The
Mackinac Transportation Company (MTC)...
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first autos crossed the
Straits of
Mackinac in 1917 on the SS
Chief Wawatam. In 1923, the
state of
Michigan began an auto
ferry service that was the...
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Mackinac Transportation Company,
which operated the SS
Chief Wawatam until 1984. The
Chief Wawatam was a front-loading, hand-fired, coal-fed steamer. It was...
