The Mormon Print Shop Museum was originally built by the followers of James Jesse Strang in 1850 and was used as the local community’s Print Shop. The first newspaper in Northern Michigan was published at this print shop, along with Strang’s Mormon doctrines and religious tracts. Strange led his followers to Beaver Island in Michigan, a place he described to them as “paradise.” He was crowned as King and later mortally wounded in 1856 by two of his former followers. The building is now the Beaver Island Historical Society’s museum and features a room about the Strang and his followers’ story.

Mormon Print Shop Museum, 26275 Main St, Beaver Island, MI 49782, Phone: 231-448-2254

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