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Southern Michigan is a loosely defined geographic area of the U.S. state of Michigan. Southern Michigan may be referred to as a sub-region or component area to other regions of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It is an area of rolling farmland, including the Irish Hills. It is usually defined as anywhere less than approximately 45-50 miles ...
The present-day Great Lakes Adventist Academy is the result of a merger of three Adventist boarding schools (the high school sections). The campus itself dates back to the oldest of its predecessor schools, Cedar Lake Academy. Cedar Lake Academy was founded on December 2, 1898. During its early years, it was an "industrial school".
An enlargeable map of the state of Michigan. Names Common name: Michigan. Pronunciation: / ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ Official name: State of Michigan; Abbreviations and name codes; Postal symbol: MI; ISO 3166-2 code: US-MI; Internet second-level domain: .mi.us. Nicknames The Great Lakes State (previously used on license plates)
Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.. The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is relatively mountainous in the west. The Porcupine Mountains, which are part of one of the oldest mountain chains in the world, [3] rise to an altitude of almost 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level and form the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.
A map of the Great Lakes Basin showing the five sub-basins. Left to right they are: Superior (magenta); Michigan (cyan); Huron (green); Erie (yellow); Ontario (red). Though the five lakes lie in separate basins, they form a single, naturally interconnected body of fresh water, within the Great Lakes Basin. As a chain of lakes and rivers, they ...
The Great Lakes region of Northern America is a binational Canadian–American region centered around the Great Lakes that includes the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario.
Its annual enrollment is around 5,100. One of its campuses is at the Cherry Capital Airport, and offers aviation and auto service classes. Another campus is at the Hagerty Center on Grand Traverse Bay, which is home to Great Lakes Maritime Academy, Great Lakes Culinary Institute, Great Lakes Water Studies Institute, and the Hagerty Conference ...
The school was founded as Great Lakes Bible College in 1949 at Rock Lake, Michigan, near Vestaburg, with a student body of 12. In 1951, the college purchased a nearby farm, which was converted into the first campus. The college subsequently moved to the Dodge Mansion in Lansing in 1958.