• Painting of Frenchtown settlement

    River Raisin

    National Battlefield Park Michigan

Brochures

Many brochures are available to download as pdf files, so you can print them out and review them before you come to the park. Most of these brochures are also available at the visitor center when you arrive. Some of our publications have a lot of graphics so they can be very large--please be patient when downloading these.

 

River Raisin National Battlefield Park rack card (pdf file, 1.5 mb)

Junior Ranger Blaze the Trail activity book (pdf file, 975 kb)

Junior Ranger Visa booklet (pdf file, 2mb)

 
cache
In honor of the Bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the Battle of the River Raisin the United States Postal Service issued this commemorative cache available for a limited time only at the Visitor Center. 
The envelope depicts Frenchtown during the battle and was taken from a painting by artist Tim Kurtz.  The special cancellation stamp developed just for the cache, is by artist Darlene Belair.

Did You Know?

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The River Raisin flows for almost 139 miles (224 km), draining an area of 1,072 square miles (2,780 km2) in the Michigan counties of Lenawee, Monroe, Washtenaw, Jackson, Hillsdale, and also a portion of Fulton County, Ohio. It was named La Rivière aux Raisins by Frenchsettlers because of the wild grapes growing along its banks--since the French word for grape is raisin. More...