This page provides illustrations to complement the illustrations already available in The Sound the Starts Make Rushing Through the Sky.
A historical marker in front of the remaining wing of the home in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan where Schoolcraft grew up and lived over half her life. As you can see from this marker and from the marker pictured below, Jane Schoolcraft and her mother, Ozhaguscodaywayquay, like many other influential women, have often been reduced to a mere footnote in a story of men, in this case the story of Schoolcraft’s father John Johnston and her husband Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.
The remaining wing of the home in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan where Schoolcraft grew up and lived from 1800-1825, 2004. For a much older photograph, see The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky.
A historical marker in front of Elmwood, Schoolcraft’s home in Sault Ste. Marie from 1827-1833.
Elmwood, 2004. For a much older photograph, see The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky.
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s grave and monument in Ancaster, Ontario. Photo by George Laidler. From “Jane Schoolcraft Monument.” Michigan History 30.2 (April-June 1946): 386-92. (This article does not always get Schoolcraft’s story accurately.)
Scenes from Mackinac Island and Fort Mackinac
For the story of young Jane Johnston at Fort Mackinac in 1814, during the war of 1812, see The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Schoolcraft moved from Sault Ste. Marie to Mackinac Island in 1833.
No mention of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.