>>7885156The british had a fur trading settlement in Mackinac city, which is on the tip of michigans lower pennisula. During the revolutionary war, the british moved their post and military center to mackinac island which had a deeper harbor and easily defendable bluffs, on which they built fort mackinac. They dragged the dismantled church across the frozen lake huron to mackinac island and reassembled it there.
