Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron)
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A short lived New France Fort established in 1686 by Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut. Its heyday was in 1687 when about two hundred coureurs de bois, about five hundred Algonquian, Henri de Tonti, Nicholas Perrot, Oliver Morel de La Durantaye, and thirty French solders (who constituted the first French garrison in Michigan) gathered there under Marquis de Denonvilles orders to prepare for an attack on the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy during the Iroquois Wars. It proved to be a wild party and it took some time to get the unruly group to move on to the business at hand.
In 1688 the Fort's commander Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron de Lahontan wearied of the lonely outpost, decided it was not worth maintaining, burned it and moved to the lively Fort de Buade in St. Ignace.
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