Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ("rapids" in French). In 1668, French missionaries Claude Dablon and Jacques Marquette founded a Jesuit mission at this site. Sault Ste. Marie developed as the fourth-oldest European city in the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains, and the oldest permanent settlement in contemporary Michigan state. On June 4, 1671, Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson, a colonial agent, was dispatched from Quebec to the distant tribes, proposing a congress of Indian nations at the Falls of St. Mary between Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Trader Nicolas Perrot helped attract the principal chiefs, and representatives of 14 Indigenous nations were invited for
Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Airport Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Airport Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Airport , also known as Sanderson Field, is a city-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Sault Ste. Marie, a city in Chippewa County, Michigan, United States. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned ANJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned ANJ to Zanaga Airport in Zanaga, Republic of Congo). Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 716