Custom Website Development in Mackinaw City, Michigan

AppWT Web & AI Solutions delivers custom website development to businesses in Mackinaw City, Cheboygan County, a community of approximately 846 residents.

Mackinaw City Business Districts We Serve

• Downtown Mackinaw City (Central Avenue)
• Huron Avenue Corridor
• Nicolet Street District

Mackinaw City is home to major employers including Shepler's Mackinac Island Ferry, Star Line Mackinac Island Ferry, Mackinaw City tourism and hospitality businesses, Mackinaw Crossings.

Serving businesses near Mackinac Bridge, Colonial Michilimackinac, Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, Mackinaw City ferry docks (Shepler's, Star Line), and throughout Mackinaw City.

Working in Mackinaw City

• The Mackinac Bridge Walk was first held in 1958 and has been held annually on Labor Day since 1959. Thousands of people, traditionally led by the governor of Michigan, cross the five-mile span on foot from St. Ignace to Mackinaw City, and it is the only day of the year that hikers can hike this section of the North Country National Scenic Trail.
• Mackinaw City is within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord and the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Michigan.
• The name Mackinaw is a respelling of Mackinac, the strait between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, ultimately from Ojibwe mishinii-makinaang, 'at the place of many snapping turtles'. Historic tribes of the area included the Ojibwe, Ottawa and Potawatomi, collectively the Council of Three Fires.
• The first European to pass the site of Mackinaw City was Jean Nicolet, sent out from Quebec City by Samuel Champlain in 1633, and Father Jacques Marquette established a mission on Mackinac Island in 1671.
• Mackinaw City's first European settlement came in 1715 when the French built Fort Michilimackinac.