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Top 7 sights in Traverse City

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   Mission Point Light

   A lighthouse at the end of Old Mission Point, the peninsula running into Grand Traverse Bay twenty-seven kilometres north of Traverse City in Michigan. It was built in 1870 to the same design as the Mamajuda light raised on the Detroit river in 1866.

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   Antrim County Courthouse

   The county courthouse at Bellaire in northern Michigan, designed in 1879 and built from 1904 in brick and stone. It has been listed as a state historic site since 1974 and on the National Register since 1980.

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   Betsie River

   A river of some eighty-seven kilometres in the northwest of Michigan's lower peninsula, reaching Lake Michigan at Frankfort. It carries strong salmon and steelhead runs and is fished hard in autumn.

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   Boardman River

   A river 45.4 kilometres long in the northwestern lower peninsula of Michigan. It rises in Kalkaska county and enters Grand Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan in the middle of Traverse City.

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   Crystal River

   A river 10.1 kilometres long in Leelanau county in Michigan. It runs from Glen Lake through the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore into Lake Michigan, and its tight meanders make it popular for kayaking and canoeing.

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   Elk River

   A river only two and a half kilometres long, carrying the water of Elk Lake into Grand Traverse Bay at Elk Rapids. Short as it is, it makes the harbour and the channel that the town was built around.

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   Grove Hill New Mission Church

   A church at Omena in Michigan. It was built in 1858, designated a state historic site in 1971 and listed on the National Register in 1972.

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