Greensky Hill Mission

Here in the 1840s the Chippewa Indian missionary, Peter Greensky, established a Protestant mission in an area where legend says Indian chiefs once held their councils. New trees have been planted in an arrangement similar to that of the trees that made up the original council circle. Mission services first were held in a rude building of boughs and bark. In the 1850s the Indians built the present church. It is a fine example of the old log-style construction with hand-hewn timbers and notched corners. Windows, doors, and much of the lumber were brought by canoe from Traverse City to Pine Lake (now Lake Charlevoix) and then carried two miles to this site. Methodist services for the Indian congregation have been held here regularly to the present.

Legend. The state marker at this site records the story as local legend rather than established fact; the wording below is the marker’s own.

Sources: National Register of Historic Places (NPS), NRHP nomination file (NARA), Wikipedia, Wikidata Q5604523.

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