Michigan

Michigan has the most registered boats (over 1 million) of any state in the Union. See also Memphis Mafia. See Lighthouses in the United States.
. They were built to project light at night and to serve as a landmark during the day to safely guide the passenger ships and freighters traveling the Great Lakes. Other. The first lighthouses in Michigan were built between 1818 and 1822. Military.

state. Sports Figures. Michigan has over 130 lighthouses, the most of any U.S. Jurists, Politicians and Activists. Michigan is nicknamed the "Great Lakes State", and also the "Wolverine State", from a nickname earned during the Toledo War. Businesspeople. Navy's USS Michigan was named in honor of the state. Actors, Directors and Musicians.

The U.S. Other museums in the area include:. postal abbreviation is "MI" (traditional: "Mich."). Along with the legendary Stax Sound, the museum also spotlights the music of Muscle Shoals, Motown, Hi and Atlantic. Its U.S. The museum is home to a broad collection of artifacts, photographs, exhibits, commentary, and music. In turn, residents of the lower peninsula may be jokingly referred to as "trolls" -- because they "live below the Mackinac Bridge." As the Lower Peninsula is famously shaped like a mitten, residents often use their left hand or right palm as a shorthand "map" to illustrate which part of the state they hail from. Also, there is the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.

An individual from Michigan is called a "Michigander" or "Michiganian." A resident of Michigan's Upper Peninsula ("the U.P.") is often called a "Yooper" (or U.P.'er). The Children's Museum of Memphis features many interactive exhibits, including a simulated grocery store, a wood skyscraper maze, and full-scale models of a fire truck and an airplane fuselage. The clang and clamor of metro Detroit's crowded thoroughfares and busy factories stand in vivid counterpoint to the tranquility found in virtually every corner of the state. A smaller art museum, the Dixion Gallery and Gardens focuses on impressionism and has several works by Monet, Degas and Renoir. Michigan is simultaneously known for its cities, supported by heavy industry, and its pristine wilderness, home to more than 11,000 lakes. The Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park, founded in 1916, serves as the region's major art museum. Benton Harbor is the poorest city in Michigan, with a per capita income of $8,965. was assassinated.

Detroit, with a per capita income of $14,717, ranks 517th on the list of Michigan locations by per capita income. Memphis is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the former Lorraine Motel, where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Only three of these cities are located outside of Metro Detroit. A month long festival, Memphis in May, is held each year to host the city's largest events like the Beale Street Music Festival, the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and the Sunset Symphony. Of these 20 locations, half are located in Oakland County, just north of Detroit. There are several art galleries in Memphis, including, most prominently, the Dixon Gallery. census² of 2000:. Opera Memphis, the region's opera company, performs at the Clark Opera Memphis Center in East Memphis.

As ranked by per capita income, as of the U.S. Ballet Memphis, which is the region's only major ballet company, performs at The Orpheum Theatre. Other important cities include. The Memphis area is home to many of West Tennessee's larger arts and culutral organizations, such as the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, which performs at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis. The largest cities in Michigan are (according to the 2000 census):. Carnival salutes various aspects of Memphis and its industries, and is reigned over by the current year's secretly selected King & Queen of Carnival. See: List of cities, villages, and townships in Michigan. Carnival Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival), is a series of parties and festivities staged every year by the Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes (similar to that of Mardi Gras) during the early summer.

See also Highway map of Michigan. Jude Classic, a PGA Tour golf tournament.
. Also part of Memphis in May is the FedEx St. The three largest Protestant denominations in Michigan are: Baptist (16% of the total state population), Lutheran (8%), Methodist (7%). Each year, the city honors a foreign country, and each weekend hosts a special event, including the World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest and the Beale Street Music Festival. The religious affiliations of the people of Michigan are:. The Mid-South Fair comes to the city every fall, and every May there is the Memphis in May.

The five largest ancestries in Michigan are: German (20.4%), African American (14.2%), Irish (10.7%), English (9.9%), Polish (8.6%). There is Libertyland Amusement Park and the adjacent Liberty Bowl and Memphis Children's Museum, Mud Island, Detour Memphis - an art and performing space, Lichterman Nature Center, the Pink Palace Museum, The Pyramid, The Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Queen riverboat. The racial makeup of the state is:. King used to play his guitar, and occasionally still appears at a club bearing his name and partly owned by him. Census Bureau estimate): 10,079,985. Blues fans can head down to Beale Street, where a young B.B. Michigan's total population (2003 U.S. Other famous musicians who got their start at Sun include Johnny Cash, Rufus Thomas, Charlie Rich, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

See also: List of companies based in Michigan. Rock and roll is located in the city also. Michigan is primarily known as the birthplace of the automobile industry. However, it is also home to a thriving tourist industry, with destinations such as Traverse City, Mackinac Island, Saugatuck and the entire Upper Peninsula drawing vacationers, hunters and nature enthusiasts from across the United States and Canada. Sun studios was where Elvis first recorded "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". See also Protected areas of Michigan, List of Michigan state parks. Tourists come from all over the world to see Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. Detroit, Michigan is the only major city in the contiguous United States that is actually due north of Canada. Out of the total population, 30.1% of those under the age of 18 and 15.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

No point in Michigan is more than 6 miles (10 km) from an inland lake or more than 85 miles (137 km) from one of the Great Lakes, and the state has more than 11,000 inland lakes and more than 36,000 miles (58,000 km) of rivers and streams. 20.6% of the population and 17.2% of families are below the poverty line. The Great Lakes which touch the two peninsulas of Michigan are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. The per capita income for the city is $17,838. This equals the length of the Atlantic Coast, from Maine to Florida. Males have a median income of $31,236 versus $25,183 for females. An additional 879 miles (1415 km) can be added if islands are included. The median income for a household in the city is $32,285, and the median income for a family is $37,767.

Other than Alaska, Michigan has the longest shoreline of any state -- 2,242 miles (3,607 km). For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.9 males. The two peninsulas are surrounded by an extensive Great Lakes shoreline. For every 100 females there are 89.8 males. These two sections are connected only by the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge -- the third longest suspension bridge in the world. The median age is 32 years. The heavily forested Upper Peninsula (often called simply "The U.P.") is as large as Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island combined, but has less than 330,000 inhabitants, who are sometimes called "Yoopers" (from "U.P.'ers") and whose speech has been heavily influenced by the large number of Scandinavian and Canadian immigrants who settled the area during the mining boom of the late 1800's. In the city the population is spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older.

The Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten and is 277 miles (446 km) long from north to south and 195 miles (314 km)from east to west. The average household size is 2.52 and the average family size is 3.18. Michigan consists of two peninsulas:. 30.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The highest point in the Lower Peninsula is not definitely established but is either Briar Hill at 1,705 feet (520 meters), or one of several points closely nearby. There are 250,721 households out of which 31.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.1% are married couples living together, 23.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% are non-families. The highest point is Mount Arvon in the Upper Peninsula at 1,979 feet (603 m). 2.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Michigan also borders Minnesota, Illinois, the Canadian province of Ontario, and the Canadian First Nation (Indian) reserve of Walpole Island, but only on water boundaries in the Great Lakes system. The racial makeup of the city is 34.41% White, 61.41% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.45% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. Michigan borders Indiana and Ohio to the south, and Wisconsin to the southwest of the Upper Peninsula. There are 271,552 housing units at an average density of 375.4/km² (972.2/mi²). Georgia has a slightly larger land area, however. The population density is 898.6/km² (2,327.4/mi²). Michigan encompasses 96,810 square miles (250,630 square kilometers), making it the largest state east of the Mississippi River if territorial water is included. As of the census² of 2000, there are 650,100 people, 250,721 households, and 158,455 families residing in the city.

See: List of Michigan Governors, List of United States Senators from Michigan, List of United States Representatives from Michigan. Slightly over 80% of office space in the city is occupied. As of April 2001, there were 127 charter townships in Michigan. Memphis as a whole contains about twenty million square feet (2,000,000 m²) of office space, with the downtown area containing only around four million square feet (400,000 m²). There are two types of townships in Michigan: general law and charter. Charter township status was created by the state legislature in 1947 and grants additional powers and stream-lined administration in order to provide greater protection against annexation by a city. Memphis' Division of Light, Gas and Water ("MLGW") is one of the largest municipal utitilites in the United States. Cities and villages are vested with home rule powers, meaning that they can do almost anything not prohibited by law. Because of its status as the primary hub for FedEx, Memphis International Airport is currently the world's busiest cargo airport in terms of tonnage.

Michigan counties and townships are statutory units of government, meaning that they have only those powers expressly provided or fairly implied by state law. It is also the headquarters of FedEx shipping. Still, with 10 million residents, Michigan remains a large and influential state and ranks 8th in population among the 50 states. Memphis is a center of manufacture of textiles, heating equipment, pianos, and automobile and truck parts. Since World War II, Detroit's industrial base has eroded as auto companies abandoned some of the area's industrial parks in favor of less expensive labor found overseas and in southern U.S. states. Public transportation in the Memphis area is provided by the Memphis Area Transit Authority (http://www.matatransit.com), which provides the area with buses and a downtown trolley system that is also in the process of expanding into a regional system. Since 1838, the city has also been noted for its thriving furniture industry. The future interstates of I-22 and I-69 are also planned to converge into the Memphis area.

Grand Rapids, the second-largest city in Michigan, is also a center of automotive manufacturing. The interstates of I-40 and I-55 (along with rail lines) cross the Mississippi at Memphis into the state of Arkansas. It was a development that not only transformed Detroit and Michigan, but permanently altered the socio-economic climate of the United States and much of the world, for that matter. Interstate highways I-40, its spur highway I-240 and I-55 are the main freeways in the Memphis area. The birth of the automotive industry, with Henry Ford's first plant in the Highland Park suburb of Detroit, marked the beginning of a new era in personal transportation. The Memphis metopolitan area encompasses the counties of Fayette, Tipton, and Shelby in Tennessee, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica in Mississippi, and Crittenden in Arkansas. Michigan's economy underwent a massive shift at the turn of the 20th century. Census.

Thought to be useless at the time of its addition to Michigan, it was soon discovered that the Upper Peninsula was a rich and important source of lumber, iron, and copper, which would become the state's most sought-after natural resources. The Memphis metropolitan area has a populuation of 1,195,977, according to the 2000 U.S. Ultimately, Congress awarded the "Toledo Strip" to Ohio, and Michigan, having received the western part of the Upper Peninsula as a concession, formally entered the Union on January 26, 1837. Memphis is the primary city of a metropolitan region including parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The dispute eventually culminated into what would be known as the Toledo War when Michigan and Ohio militia maneuvered in the area. Major Memphis parks include Tom Lee Park, Audubon Park, Overton Park and the Memphis Botanic Garden. A state government was formed in 1835, although Congressional recognition of the state languished due to a boundary dispute with Ohio, with both sides claiming a 468 square mile (1,210 km²) strip of land that included the important port city of Toledo on Lake Erie and an area to the west then known as the "Great Black Swamp". The total area is 5.24% water.

By the 1830s, Michigan had some 80,000 residents, more than enough to apply for statehood. 723.4 km² (279.3 mi²) of it is land and 40.0 km² (15.4 mi²) of it is water. The population grew slowly until the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which brought large numbers of settlers. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 763.4 km² (294.8 mi²). Michigan passed to Great Britain in 1763 and then to the new United States two decades later. Memphis is located at 35°7'3" North, 89°58'16" West (35.117365, -89.971068)¹. Most of the rest of the region remained unsettled by whites, however. See also: List of mayors of Memphis.

The town became a major fur-trading and shipping post. There has been in recent years the idea thrown around of the potential of the merger of county government of Shelby County and City of Memphis into a metropolitan government similar to that in Nashville. Clair and Erie. Herenton served for 12 years as the superintendent of Memphis City Schools. In 1701, explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Detroit on the straits between Lakes St. Prior to his election, Dr. Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century. He was elected for the first time in 1991, when he became Memphis' first black mayor.

The name is derived from Lake Michigan, which in turn is believed to come from the Chippewa Indian word meicigama, meaning "great water." Bounded by four of the Great Lakes, Michigan has the longest state shoreline in the continental United States, and more recreational boats than any other state in the union. Herenton is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as Mayor. Michigan is a state in the United States. Dr. List of people from Michigan. Herenton. List of Michigan counties. W.

List of highways in Michigan. W. List of Michigan-related topics. The current mayor of Memphis is Dr. List of Governors of Michigan. This plan provides for nine districts, seven with one representative each and two districts with three representatives each. Michigan is the only state composed of two separate peninsulas. In 1995, the council adopted a new district plan which changed council positions to all districts.

The state soil, Kalkaska Sand, ranges in color from black to yellowish brown, covers nearly a million acres (4,000 km²) in 29 counties. The new city charter provided for the election of a mayor and thirteen council members, six elected at large from throughout the city and seven elected from geographic districts. The state wildflower, the Dwarf Lake Iris (Iris lacustris), is a federal-listed threatened species. Since 1966, Memphis has been governed by the "weak mayor" form of mayor-council government. The state gem chlorastrolite, literally the green star stone, also known as the Isle Royale greenstone is found on Isle Royale and the Keweenaw. "Boss" Crump. The state stone, the Petoskey stone (Hexagonaria pericarnata), is composed of fossilized diatoms from long ago when the middle of the continent was covered with a shallow sea. H.

The state motto, Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice is Latin for "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you", a paraphrase of a statement made by British architect Sir Christopher Wren about his influence on London. From the 1910s to the 1950s, Memphis was a hotbed of machine politics under the direction of E. State nicknames include the Wolverine State, Great Lakes State, Mitten State, and Winter Water Wonderland. In 1897, Memphis' pyramid-shaped pavilion was a conspicuous part of the Tennessee Centennial exposition. State soil: Kalkaska Sand. A yellow fever epidemic in 1870 greatly reduced the population for many years thereafter. State gem: Isle Royale greenstone (also called chlorastrolite). At the conclusion of the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces captured Memphis from Confederate control.

State stone: Petoskey stone. The city was founded in 1819 and incorporated as a city in 1826. State tree: White Pine. The French built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity. State wildflower: Dwarf Lake Iris. The Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, is believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area. State flower: Apple Blossom. Memphis was settled by the Chickasaw tribe.

State fossil: Mastodon.
. State reptile: Painted Turtle. Memphis is on the Lower Chickasaw Bluff above the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Wolf River. State fish: Brook Trout. King. State mammal: White-tailed Deer. B.

State bird: American Robin. Memphis was home to Elvis Presley and is home to B. State song: My Michigan (official, but disputed amongst Michiganders). The city is particularly known for blues music and barbecue. State motto: Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice. (This makes Memphis the largest city but second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by Metropolitan Nashville). Alpena IceDiggers, North American Hockey League. The greater Memphis metropolitan area had a population of 1,195,977.

Traverse City North Stars, North American Hockey League. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 650,100 within the city limits, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, United States. Saginaw Spirit, Ontario Hockey League. Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, of which it is the county seat. Plymouth Whalers, Ontario Hockey League. 35°7'3" N
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Grand Rapids Rampage, Arena Football League. William Eggleston (Author). Detroit Demolition, National Women's Football Association. Shelby Foote (Author). Detroit Fury, Arena Football League. Richard Halliburton (explorer and author). Grosse Ile, $42,150. Ric Flair (professional wrestling) was born in Memphis, but was adopted in infancy by a couple in the Twin Cities and grew up there.

Beverly Hills, $43,452. Jerry Lawler (professional wrestling)