Editing Petoskey, Michigan (section)

===Early Presbyterian missions===
By the 1850s, several religious groups had established missions near the Little Traverse Bay. A Mormon offshoot had been based at [[Beaver Island (Lake Michigan)|Beaver Island]], the Jesuit missionaries had been based at [[L'arbor Croche]] and [[Michilimackinac]], with a Catholic presence in Harbor Springs, then known as "Little Traverse".<ref>{{cite web |title=History of St. Francis |url=http://www.petoskeysfx.org/history.html |website=petoskeysfx.org |quote=The first Catholic Church was built in Petoskey around 1859 by Father Sifferath, who was stationed in Harbor Springs}}</ref> Andrew Porter, a Presbyterian missionary, arrived at the village of Bear River (as it was then called) in 1852.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hellmann|first1=Paul T.|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|date=2005|publisher=Routledge (Taylor & Francis Books)|location=New York|isbn=0-415-93948-8|page=555|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&q=andrew+porter+1852+presbyterian&pg=PA555|access-date=3 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Little Traverse Bay|url=http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage=S0166.htm|website=michmarkers.com|access-date=3 May 2016|quote=Petoskey, named for Chief Pe-to-se-ga of the Bear River Band was first settled in 1852 by Andrew Porter, a Presbyterian missionary.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710164014/http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage=S0166.htm|archive-date=July 10, 2018|url-status=usurped|df=mdy-all}}</ref>