The Fort Custer Recreation Area is located off of Dickman Road between Augusta, and Battle Creek, Michigan.  It is a 3000+ acre park which originally was a military training area that was eventually turned over to the Department of Natural Resources in the State of Michigan to develop into a State Park.  It was an eleven year journey for the State to acquire the land, and also a long journey to make is a safe place for public recreation.  At one point there were over 2500 live and defunct military ordinances, along with old artillery shells removed from one of the lakes, and several others removed by metal detectors from another section, as the land had once been used for target practice on the military reservation. 

The history of the year the Fort Custer Recreation Area was written a book published in 1985 by Faye Clark.

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