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1950 Map of Cote Dame Marie

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Cote Dame Marie
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

About this map

Camp Grayling and the Michigan National Guard Military Reservation dominate this mid-century landscape in the northern Lower Peninsula. The area serves as a significant training ground, featuring an extensive Rifle Range and several named high points including Vosges Ridge, Cote Dame Marie, and the Three Sisters Range. These landforms provided strategic terrain for maneuvers within the Hanson State Game Refuge.

Social and civic life is concentrated near the northern shore of Higgins Lake, where the Higgins Lake State Nursery and American Legion Park are located. Further north, evidence of earlier rural settlement remains at the Beaver Creek Sch and Beaver Creek Cem. The map illustrates a region transitioning between state-managed conservation in the Garfield State Forest and the specialized infrastructure of a major military installation.