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Michigan Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars
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geography > NA > US > MW > MICHIGAN < social studies
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Michigan, known as the “Wolverine State” and the “Great Lakes State”, joined the Union on January 26, 1837 as the 26th state. The word “Michigan” comes from the Indian word meaning great or big lake.
The State of Michigan consists of two non contiguous peninsulas, headlands surrounded by Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, St Clair, and Erie. The upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan are connected by the five mile long Straits of Mackinaw Bridge.
Michigan, in the East North Central Region, has a northern and eastern border with Ontario, Canada; to the south with Ohio and Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin share the Lake Michigan border, the Upper Peninsula borders with Wisconsin, and Minnesota touches Lake Superior at the western end.
Trivia question: What do Annie Edson Taylor and Madonna Ciccone have in common? *
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Land Between the Waters map text -
Newcomers to Michigan, Wisconsin, and the Great Lakes have been uncovering pleasures and surprises ever since French explorer Jean Nicolet paddled into this region in 1634. On a search for a northwest passage, he stepped ashore near Green Bay, thinking he had reached the Orient.
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Lumber barons of the past century took out much of the timber; mining companies skimmed off the richest ore; overfishing and such pests as the sea lamprey and alewife reduced the fish supply. But a bountiful land remains. Vacationists come from afar, drawn by the outdoors and north woods peace.
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(45º48'50"N 84º45'0"W)
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| The Straits of Mackinac, connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and separating the Lower and Upper Peninsulas of Michigan, is, in hydrological terms, is actually “a narrow point defining two lobes of a single Lake Michigan-Huron”. |
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| The Tahquamenon River is noted as being the land of Longfellow's ‘Song of Hiawatha’.
Young Ernest Hemingway spent summers on Walloon Lake (Bear Lake) near Petosky.
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Eastern White Pine is the State Tree of Michigan.
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Apple Blossom
Apple Blossoms are also the state flower for Arkansas.
The apple tree is one of the most widely cultivated fruit trees, and the apple figures prominately in mythology, folklore and history. The apple is depicted as tempting Eve, supposedly Issac Newton was inspired to ponder the relationship between Earth and its Moon by a falling apple, Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman planted appleseeds across the midwest United States, and an “apple a day will keep the doctor away.”
• food posters
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The Robin, the State Bird of Michigan, is found throughout the United States and Canada. Robins have distinctive “red breast” and lay blue eggs. The Robin is a migratory songbird in the thrush family that eats insects and earthworms. The robin, one of the first signs of spring, is also the state bird of Connecticut and Wisconsin.
And then the robin has its own song- tweet, tweet, tweet! Rockin' Robin by Bobby Day CD
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The author, Mac-ke-te-be-nessy or Andrew J. Blackbird, among other positions held, was an interpreter for the US government and was appointed postmaster of Harbor Springs, Michigan, which was named Little Traverse at that time. He was the first Native American to hold that position.
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Jacques Marquette
b. 6-10-1637; France
d. 5-18-1675; near present day Ludington, Michigan
Jacques Marquette, known as Pere Marquette, was a Jesuit missionary to the French colony of Quebec in present day Canada. He founded the first European settlement in Michigan at Sault Ste. Marie, and later St. Ignace (1671) which is now the northern end of the Straits of Mackinaw bridge.
In 1673 Pere Marquette with French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet were the first non-Native Americans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.
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