st.
joseph heritage river trail
The
River Country Heritage Water Trail is made up of three different river
trails – two along the St. Joseph River and one along the Nottawa
Creek. As the St. Joseph winds its way west of Mendon towards Three
Rivers, the ending point of the first phase of the trail, it passes
under the Langley Covered Bridge (SJ-12), built in 1867. The 282-foot
bridge, named after a local pioneer family, is the longest covered
bridge in the state as well as one of the few that remain.
Glide down the streams of St. Joseph County in southwestern
Michigan past the site of a Native American village that stretched
for miles and catch a glimpse of how things used to be. See a
trading post from the early 1800s that was replaced by a
Georgian-style manor, a blacksmith shop from the 1870s that is
currently a museum, and evidence of an 1850s era sawmill, including
the remnant of its dam and millrace, that once sent lumber to
Chicago and Milwaukee.
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