Michigan |
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| State nickname: "Wolverine State" or "Great Lakes State" | |
| Other U.S. States | |
| Capital | Lansing |
| Largest city | Detroit |
| Governor | Jennifer Granholm |
| Official languages | English |
| Area | 250,941 km² (11th) |
| - Land | 147,255 km² |
| - Water | 103,687 km² (41.3%) |
| Population (2000) | |
| - Population | 9,938,444 (8th) |
| - Density | 67.55 /km² (15th) |
| Admission into Union | |
| - Date | January 26, 1837 |
| - Order | 26th |
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 (Some Upper Peninsula counties bordering Wisconsin are Central time.) |
| Latitude | 41°41'N to 47°30'N |
| Longitude | 82°26'W to 90°31'W |
| Width | 385 km |
| Length | 790 km |
| Elevation | |
| - Highest | 603 m |
| - Mean | 275 m |
| - Lowest | 174 m |
| Abbreviations | |
| - USPS | MI |
| - ISO 3166-2 | US-MI |
| Web site | www.michigan.gov |
Michigan is a state in the United States. 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.
Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century. In 1701, explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Detroit on the straits between Lakes St. Clair and Erie. The town became a major fur-trading and shipping post. Most of the rest of the region remained unsettled by whites, however. Michigan passed to Great Britain in 1763 and then to the new United States two decades later. The population grew slowly until the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which brought large numbers of settlers.
By the 1830s, Michigan had some 80,000 residents, more than enough to apply for statehood. 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 dispute eventually culminated into what would be known as the Toledo War when Michigan and Ohio militia maneuvered in the area. 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.
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.
Michigan's economy underwent a massive shift at the turn of the 20th century. 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. 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.
Grand Rapids, the second-largest city in Michigan, is also a center of automotive manufacturing. Since 1838, the city has also been noted for its thriving furniture industry.
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. Still, with 10 million residents, Michigan remains a large and influential state and ranks 8th in population among the 50 states.
Michigan counties and townships are statutory units of government, meaning that they have only those powers expressly provided or fairly implied by state law. Cities and villages are vested with home rule powers, meaning that they can do almost anything not prohibited by law.
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. As of April 2001, there were 127 charter townships in Michigan.
See: List of Michigan Governors, List of United States Senators from Michigan, List of United States Representatives from Michigan
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. Georgia has a slightly larger land area, however.
Michigan borders Indiana and Ohio to the south, and Wisconsin to the southwest of the Upper Peninsula. 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 highest point is Mount Arvon in the Upper Peninsula at 1,979 feet (603 m). 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.
Michigan consists of two peninsulas:
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 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.
These two sections are connected only by the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge -- the third longest suspension bridge in the world. The two peninsulas are surrounded by an extensive Great Lakes shoreline. Other than Alaska, Michigan has the longest shoreline of any state -- 2,242 miles (3,607 km). An additional 879 miles (1415 km) can be added if islands are included. This equals the length of the Atlantic Coast, from Maine to Florida. The Great Lakes which touch the two peninsulas of Michigan are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. 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.
Detroit, Michigan is the only major city in the contiguous United States that is actually due north of Canada.
See also Protected areas of Michigan, List of Michigan state parks
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.
See also: List of companies based in Michigan
Michigan's total population (2003 U.S. Census Bureau estimate): 10,079,985
The racial makeup of the state is:
The five largest ancestries in Michigan are: German (20.4%), African American (14.2%), Irish (10.7%), English (9.9%), Polish (8.6%).
The religious affiliations of the people of Michigan are:
The three largest Protestant denominations in Michigan are: Baptist (16% of the total state population), Lutheran (8%), Methodist (7%).
See also Highway map of Michigan
See: List of cities, villages, and townships in Michigan
The largest cities in Michigan are (according to the 2000 census):
Other important cities include
As ranked by per capita income, as of the U.S. census2 of 2000:
Of these 20 locations, half are located in Oakland County, just north of Detroit. Only three of these cities are located outside of Metro Detroit. Detroit, with a per capita income of $14,717, ranks 517th on the list of Michigan locations by per capita income. Benton Harbor is the poorest city in Michigan, with a per capita income of $8,965.
Michigan is simultaneously known for its cities, supported by heavy industry, and its pristine wilderness, home to more than 11,000 lakes. 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.
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). 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.
Its U.S. postal abbreviation is "MI" (traditional: "Mich."). The U.S. Navy's USS Michigan was named in honor of the state. Michigan is nicknamed the "Great Lakes State", and also the "Wolverine State", from a nickname earned during the Toledo War.
Michigan has over 130 lighthouses, the most of any U.S. state. The first lighthouses in Michigan were built between 1818 and 1822. 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. See Lighthouses in the United States.
Michigan has the most registered boats (over 1 million) of any state in the Union.
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Michigan has the most registered boats (over 1 million) of any state in the Union. See: Music of Tennessee. See Lighthouses in the United
States. See: Tennessee State Flag. 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. See the List of famous Tennesseans and the List of Governors of Tennessee. The first
lighthouses in Michigan were built between 1818 and 1822. state. Tennessee cities' claims to fame are:. Michigan has over 130 lighthouses, the most of any U.S. As of 2000, the population is 5,689,283. Michigan is nicknamed the "Great Lakes State", and also the "Wolverine State", from a nickname earned during the Toledo War. The three towns of Bristol, Kingsport, and Johnson City make up a fifth significant population center, often called the "Tri-Cities", in the far northeast of the state. Navy's USS Michigan was named in honor of the state. Chattanooga and Knoxville, both in the eastern part of the state near the Great Smoky Mountains, have approximately a third of Memphis or Nashville's population. The U.S. Memphis has the largest population of any city in the state, but Nashville has a slightly larger metropolitan area. postal abbreviation is "MI" (traditional: "Mich."). The capital is Nashville. Its U.S. The three largest Protestant denominations in Tennessee are: Baptist (43% of the total state population), Methodist (11%), Churches of Christ (5%). 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. The religious affiliations of the citizens of Tennessee are:. 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). Females made up approximately 51.3% of the population. 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. 6.6% of Tennessee's population were reported as under 5, 24.6% under 18, and 12.4% were 65 or older. Michigan is simultaneously known for its cities, supported by heavy industry, and its pristine wilderness, home to more than 11,000 lakes. The 5 largest ancestry groups in Tennessee are American (17.5%), African American (16.4%), Irish (9.3%), English (9.1%), German (8.3%). Benton Harbor is the poorest city in Michigan, with a per capita income of $8,965. The racial makeup of the state is:. Detroit, with a per capita income of $14,717, ranks 517th on the list of Michigan locations by per capita income. Census Bureau, as of 2003, Tennessee's population was estimated at 5,841,748 people. Only three of these cities are located outside of Metro Detroit. According to the U.S. Of these 20 locations, half are located in Oakland County, just north of Detroit. The overall state tax rate is relatively low, however, as Tennessee does not tax wage and salary income (although it does tax unearned income). census2 of 2000:. Some cities charge additional taxes, leading to some of the highest sales taxes in the United States. As ranked by per capita income, as of the U.S. State sales tax is 7%, while the counties charge an additional 2.25% for a
total of 9.25% across Tennessee. Other important cities include. See also Highway map of Michigan. Bureau of Economic Analysis, in 2003 Tennessee's Gross State Product was $199,786,000,000, 1.8% of the total
Gross Domestic Product. The five largest ancestries in Michigan are: German (20.4%), African American (14.2%), Irish (10.7%), English (9.9%), Polish (8.6%). The Cumberland Plateau is generally considered the dividing line between East and Middle Tennessee. The racial makeup of the state is:. The Tennessee River is generally considered the dividing line between Middle and West Tennessee. Census Bureau estimate): 10,079,985. The state of Tennessee is traditionally divided by its people into three grand divisions - East, Middle, and West Tennessee. Michigan's total population (2003 U.S. The highest point in the state is the peak of Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet (2,025 meters), which lies on Tennesee's eastern border. See also: List of companies based in Michigan. The state is trisected by the Tennessee River. 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. Tennessee is bordered on the north by Kentucky and Virginia, on the east by North Carolina, on the south by Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and on the west by Arkansas and Missouri. See also Protected areas of Michigan, List of Michigan state parks. Tennessee lies adjacent to 8 other states, matched only by Missouri which also borders 8 states. Detroit, Michigan is the only major city in the contiguous United States that is actually due north of Canada. See also: List of Tennessee counties, List of Tennessee state parks. 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. The first was adopted in 1796, the year Tennessee joined the union, and the second was adopted in 1834. The Great Lakes which touch the two peninsulas of Michigan are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. The state had two earlier constitutions. This equals the length of the Atlantic Coast, from Maine to Florida. Tennessee's current state constitution was adopted in 1870. An additional 879 miles (1415 km) can be added if islands are included. The Court of Criminal Appeals has nine judges. Other than Alaska, Michigan has the longest shoreline of any state -- 2,242 miles (3,607 km). The Court of Appeals has 12 judges. The two peninsulas are surrounded by an extensive Great Lakes shoreline. It has a chief justice and four associate justices. These two sections are connected only by the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge -- the third longest suspension bridge in the world. The highest court in Tennessee is the state Supreme Court. 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. The General Assembly (the state's legislature) consists of the 33-member Senate and the 99-member House of Representatives. Senators serve four year terms, and House members serve two year terms. 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. See:List of Tennessee Governors. Michigan consists of two peninsulas:. The speaker of the state Senate has the title of lieutenant governor. 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. Tennessee's governor holds office for a four year term and may serve any number of terms, but not more than two in a row. The highest point is Mount Arvon in the Upper Peninsula at 1,979 feet (603 m). Tennessee celebrated its bicentennial in 1996 after a yearlong statewide celebration entitled "Tennessee 200" by opening a new state park (Bicentennial Mall) at the foot of Capitol Hill in Nashville. 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. During World War II, Oak Ridge was selected as a US Department of Energy national laboratory, one of the principal sites for the Manhattan Project's production and isolation of weapons-grade fissile material. Michigan borders Indiana and Ohio to the south, and Wisconsin to the southwest of the Upper Peninsula. The need to create work for the unemployed during the Depression, the desire for rural electrification, and the desire to control the annual spring floods on the Tennessee River drove the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public utility, in 1933. Georgia has a slightly larger land area, however. In 1897, the state celebrated its centennial of statehood (albeit one year late) with a great exposition. 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. Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor after the American Civil War, mostly due to the influence of President Andrew Johnson, a native of the state, who was Lincoln's vice president and succeeded him as president, due to the assassination. See: List of Michigan Governors, List of United States Senators from Michigan, List of United States Representatives from Michigan. After the American Civil War, Tennessee adopted a new constitution that abolished slavery (February 22, 1865), ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 18, 1866, and was the first state readmitted to the Union (July 24 of the same year). As of April 2001, there were 127 charter townships in Michigan. Tennessee was the last Confederate state to secede from the Union when it did so on June 8, 1861. 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. Tennessee was admitted to the Union in 1796 as the 16th state, and was created by taking the north and south borders of North Carolina and extending them with only one small deviation to the Mississippi River, Tennessee's western boundary. Cities and villages are vested with home rule powers, meaning that they can do almost anything not prohibited by law. This came to be known as the Trail of Tears, as an estimated 4,000 Cherokees died along the way.1. Michigan counties and townships are statutory units of government, meaning that they have only those powers expressly provided or fairly implied by state law. From 1838 to 1839, nearly 17,000 Cherokees were forced to march from Eastern Tennessee to Indian Territory west of Arkansas. Still, with 10 million residents, Michigan remains a large and influential state and ranks 8th in population among the 50 states. As European colonists spread into the area, the native populations were forcibly displaced to the south and west, including all Muscogee and Yuchi peoples, including the Chickasaw and Choctaw. 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. For unknown reasons, possibly due to expanding European settlement in the north, the Cherokee, an Iroquoian tribe, moved south from the area now called Virginia. Since 1838, the city has also been noted for its thriving furniture industry. When Spanish explorers first visited the area, led by Hernando de Soto in 1539-43, it was inhabited by tribes of Muscogee and Yuchi people. Grand Rapids, the second-largest city in Michigan, is also a center of automotive manufacturing. The names of the cultural groups that inhabited the area between first settlement and the time of European contact are unknown, but several distinct cultural phases have been named by archaeologists, including Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian whose chiefdoms were the cultural predecessors of the Muscogee people who inhabited the Tennessee River Valley prior to Cherokee migration into the river's headwaters. 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. The area now known as Tennessee was first settled by Paleo-Indians nearly 11,000 years ago. 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. When a constitutional convention met in 1796 to organize a new state out of the Southwest Territory, it adopted "Tennessee" as the name of the state. Michigan's economy underwent a massive shift at the turn of the 20th century. In 1788, North Carolina named the third county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee "Tennessee County". 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 modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the Governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. 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. It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river", or "river of the great bend".[1] (http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/faq.htm#01)[2] (http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/tennessee.html). The dispute eventually culminated into what would be known as the Toledo War when Michigan and Ohio militia maneuvered in the area. Some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier Yuchi or possibly Creek word. 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 meaning and origin of the word are uncertain. By the 1830s, Michigan had some 80,000 residents, more than enough to apply for statehood. The town was located on a river of the same name (now known as the Little Tennessee River). The population grew slowly until the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which brought large numbers of settlers. European settlers later encountered a Cherokee town named Tanasi (or "Tanase") in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee. Michigan passed to Great Britain in 1763 and then to the new United States two decades later. The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was first recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through a Native American village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while travelling inland from South Carolina. Most of the rest of the region remained unsettled by whites, however. Tennessee is a Southern state of the United States. The town became a major fur-trading and shipping post. ISBN 0870492853. Clair and Erie. Knoville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1979. In 1701, explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Detroit on the straits between Lakes St. Tennessee's Indian Peoples. Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century. 1 Satz, Ronald. 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. The USS Tennessee was named in honor of this state. Michigan is a state in the United States. Constitution, allowing women the right to vote. List of people from Michigan. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee become the thirty-sixth and clinching state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. List of Michigan counties. The Tennessee Valley Authority is based in Knoxville. List of highways in Michigan. State song: Tennessee (http://www.50states.com/songs/tenn6.htm). List of Michigan-related topics. Cleveland Majic. List of Governors of Michigan. Nashville Rhythm. Michigan is the only state composed of two separate peninsulas. Minor League basketball teams
The state soil, Kalkaska Sand, ranges in color from black to yellowish brown, covers nearly a million acres (4,000 km²) in 29 counties. Johnson City Cardinals. The state wildflower, the Dwarf Lake Iris (Iris lacustris), is a federal-listed threatened species. Kingsport Mets. The state gem chlorastrolite, literally the green star stone, also known as the Isle Royale greenstone is found on Isle Royale and the Keweenaw. Greeneville Astros. 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. Elizabethton Twins. 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. Tennessee Smokies (Sevierville). State nicknames include the Wolverine State, Great Lakes State, Mitten State, and Winter Water Wonderland. West Tenn Diamond Jaxx (Jackson). State soil: Kalkaska Sand. Chattanooga Lookouts. State gem: Isle Royale greenstone (also called chlorastrolite). Nashville Sounds. State stone: Petoskey stone. Memphis Redbirds. State tree: White Pine. Minor League baseball teams
State fossil: Mastodon. Knoxville Ice Bears. State reptile: Painted Turtle. Southern Professional Hockey League
State bird: American Robin. Memphis Grizzlies. State song: My Michigan (official, but disputed amongst Michiganders). National Basketball Association
Traverse City North Stars, North American Hockey League. Gatlinburg - tourist destination, gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Saginaw Spirit, Ontario Hockey League. Pigeon Forge - tourist destination, home to Dollywood amusement park. Plymouth Whalers, Ontario Hockey League. Lebanon - home to Cracker Barrel restaurant chain and site of first location, home of Nashville Superspeedway. Flint Generals, United Hockey League. Murfreesboro - home of Middle Tennessee State University; geographic center of Tennessee; home of famous American Civil War Battle of Stones River (also known as the Battle of Murfreesboro); site of second state capital of Tennessee. Port Huron Beacons, United Hockey League. Cleveland - Church Of God (Cleveland) headquarters. Kalamazoo K-Wings, International Hockey League. Fort Campbell - home of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division (though the base headquarters and address lie in Kentucky, the majority of the base is located in Tennessee). Muskegon Fury, United Hockey League. Clarksville - main campus of Austin Peay State University. Grand Rapids Griffins, American Hockey League. Lawrenceburg - home of legendary pioneer Davy Crockett. Grand Rapids Rampage, Arena Football League. Carthage - home of recent Vice President and Presidential candidate Al Gore. Detroit Demolition, National Women's Football Association. Spring Hill - like Smyrna, major automotive manufacturing center, only for Saturn automobiles. Detroit Fury, Arena Football League. Smyrna - site of very large Nissan production facility. Grosse Ile, $42,150. Lynchburg - home of Jack Daniels distillery. Beverly Hills, $43,452. Bristol - site of major NASCAR track. Northville, $43,454. Oak Ridge - major scientific/research center, Manhattan Project. West Bloomfield Township, $44,885. Chattanooga - major railroad hub, financial center, major Civil War battleground. South Gull Lake, $45,175. Knoxville - main campus of University of Tennessee, proximity to the Great Smoky Mountains, site of original capital of Tennessee, Tennessee Valley Authority headquarters, site of the 1982 World's Fair and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Huntington Woods, $45,264. Nashville - State capital, world center of country music industry, Southern Baptist Convention headquarters, Home of Vanderbilt University and Tennessee State University among many other small private colleges and universities, home of Tennessee Titans and Nashville Predators professional sports teams. Sylvan Lake, $48,744. Memphis - blues music center, birthplace of rock and roll, assassination of Martin Luther King, home of Elvis Presley, home of Memphis Grizzlies NBA team, home of University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State University), home to worldwide shipping giant FedEx, one of the centers of 60s and 70s soul music (Stax, Hi). Grand Beach, $51,788. Non-Religious – 6%. Grosse Pointe, $53,942. Other Religions – 1%. Grosse Pointe Farms, $54,846. Other Christian – 1%. Birmingham, $59,314. Roman Catholic – 5%. Bloomfield Township, $62,716. Protestant – 85%. Michiana, $63,558. 1.1% mixed race. Orchard Lake Village, $67,881. 1.0% Asian. Grosse Pointe Shores, $69,639. 0.3% American Indian. Franklin, $71,033. 2.2% Hispanic. Bingham Farms, $74,588. 16.4% Black. Lake Angelus, $83,792. 79.2% White. Bloomfield Hills, $104,920. state taxes. Barton Hills, $110,683. Major industries/products. East Lansing (Home of Michigan State University). State income. Holland (Home of the Michigan Dutch). Blue Ridge Mountains - including the Great Smoky Mountains. Frankenmuth (Michigan's Little Bavaria). Ridge-and-valley Appalachians. Midland (headquarters for the Dow Chemical Company). Cumberland Plateau - also called the Appalachian Plateau. Traverse City (the Cherry Capital of the World). Highland Rim - this is continuous with the region in Kentucky termed the Pennyroyal Plateau. Marquette (Largest city in the Upper Peninsula with 19,661 people). Nashville Basin. Battle Creek (Cereal City U.S.A.). Gulf Coastal Plain - including the Mississippi embayment. Livonia, population 100,545. Ann Arbor population 114,024 (the home of the University of Michigan). Lansing population 119,128 (the state capital). Sterling Heights population 124,471. Flint population 124,943. Warren population 138,247. Grand Rapids population 197,800 (The Furniture City). Detroit population 951,270 (also known as "Motor City" and Motown). Non-Religious – 9%. Other Religions – 4% (mostly Muslim and Jewish). Other Christian – 1%. Roman Catholic – 29%. Protestant – 54%. 3.3% of the population is of Hispanic origin, a category that may include members of any race. 1.9% Mixed race. 0.6% American Indian. 1.8% Asian. 14.2% Black. 80.2% White. state taxes. Automobiles (General Motors, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler), Amway, Cereal (Kellogg's), Copper, Furniture (Steelcase, Herman Miller, Haworth), Iron. Major industries/products
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Michigan's total state product in 2003 was $365 billion. Per capital personal income in 2003 was $31,178, 20th in the nation. State income
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Keweenaw National Historical Park. Isle Royale National Park. the Upper Peninsula. the Lower Peninsula and. The power of initiative extends only to laws which the legislature may enact under this constitution.". Referendum and Voter Initiative: Michigan's constitution provides for voter initiative and referendum (Article II, § 9 [ [1] (http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=mcl-Constitution-II-9&queryid=3791545&highlight=referendum)]), defined as "the power to propose laws and to enact and reject laws, called the initiative, and the power to approve or reject laws enacted by the legislature, called the referendum. state constitution. Michigan Constitutions of 1835, 1850, 1908, and 1963 (http://www.michigan.gov/som/0,1607,7-192-29938_30243-96757--,00.html). structure of state judicary. Michigan Senate. Michigan State House of Representatives. Michigan Legislature -- bicameral
Capital: Lansing. 1987 Michigan celebrated 150 years of statehood. Ford of Grand Rapids became the 38th President of the United States. 1974 Gerald R. The riot had lasting effects on the entire metro region and is usually cited as one of the reasons the Detroit area is among the most segregated areas in the United States. After 5 days of rioting, 43 people lay dead, 1189 injured and over 7000 people had been arrested. 1967 Race riots struck the city of Detroit. 1957 Five-mile long Mackinac Bridge opened November 1. 1943 Riot broke out pitting whites against blacks during wartime. 1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike ended with official recognition of the United Auto Workers by General Motors. 1890s and 1900s Ford, Chrysler and General Motors were founded in southeastern Michigan. The structure cost $1,510,130. 1879 New State Capitol dedicated in Lansing. 1847 A law was passed by the State Legislature to re-locate from Detroit the State Capital to a site "in the township of Lansing, in the county of Ingham.". 1846 Marji-Gesick, an Ojibwa Indian, pointed out a large deposit of iron ore to prospector Philo Everett near the present-day city of Negaunee. 1840 Douglass Houghton reported finding copper deposits on the Keweenaw Peninsula. 1838 Patriot War. 1837 The Panic of 1837 was a severe setback to the nascent state bank and to several ambitious programs of public improvements, including the Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal. January 26, 1837 Michigan became the 26th US State. 1817, The University of Michigan is established in Detroit, the first public university in the state. 1837 Admitted as a free state into the union (the 26th state), it was admitted concurrently with the slave state of Arkansas. As a resolution, Ohio received Toledo and the Toledo Strip but Michigan gained the western two-thirds of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A minor conflict with Ohio over the city of Toledo, Ohio, known as the Toledo War, contributed to delaying Michigan's statehood. Mason inaugurated as the first Governor. Stevens T. 1835 First Constitutional Convention. 1828 Territorial Capitol built in Detroit at a cost of $24,500. The Council was expanded to thirteen members in 1825 and made an elected body in 1827. President who selected them from eighteen persons chosen by the people. 1823 Congress transferred legislative powers previously exercised by the Territorial Governor and Judges to a nine-member Legislative Council, appointed by the U.S. 1821 With the Treaty of Chicago, the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi ceded all the lands south of the Grand River to the United States. 1819 In the Treaty of Saginaw, the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi ceded more than six million acres, or 24,000 km² in the central portion of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to the United States. 1813 Lewis Cass became Territorial Governor. Detroit was destroyed by fire. 1805 Michigan Territory was created, with Detroit designated as the seat of government. William Hull appointed as governor. Wayne County was established as an administrative division of the Northwest Territory. 1796 Detroit and other posts in Michigan were turned over to the United States under terms of the Jay Treaty. did not take control of the territory until 1796. The U.S. 1783 The area that is now Michigan is included with the territory ceded by Great Britain to the United States by the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War. 1760s Chief Pontiac led a major revolt of the Ottawa tribe against the British. 1760 Detroit was captured by the British. 1701 Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, with his lieutenant Alphonse de Tonty, established a trading post on the Detroit River which they name Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit; now the present site of Detroit. Marie, Michigan, the first European settlement in Michigan. 1668 Père (Father) Jacques Marquette established Sault Ste. 1622 Étienne Brûlé and his fellow explorers from Grenoble, France, were probably the first white men to see Lake Superior. |