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A minor conflict with Ohio, known as the Toledo War, over an area including the city of Toledo, Ohio, delayed Michigan statehood, because the State of Ohio objected. 1836 Michigan accepted Ohio's claim to Toledo and the Toledo Strip and received, as compensation, the western three-fourths of the Upper Peninsula .
The city's motto, Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus ("We hope for better things, it will rise from the ashes") dates from this event. Detroit becomes capital of Michigan Territory. [3] 1806 September 13: City of Detroit incorporated by the territorial governing council. [6] Solomon Sibley becomes mayor.
Dunbar, Willis F. and George S. May. Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State, 3rd ed. (1995) the standard comprehensive textbook 1980 edition online; Farmer, Silas (1889). The history of Detroit and Michigan; or, The metropolis illustrated; a full record of territorial days in Michigan, and the annals of Wayne County. Farmer, Silas (1890).
One piece of the Detroit narrative that is often exempt from the telling of history is that of slavery. Although Detroit, or the North in general, is often perceived to have been abolitionist and free of slavery, slavery indeed played a role in the city's history. Captive indigenous and African people contributed to the early development of the ...
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Articles related to the history of the U.S. state of Michigan Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Michigan . See Category:People from Michigan for Michigan people.
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History of Mexican Americans in Metro Detroit; Michigan State Fair; Michigan State Fair Riding Coliseum, Dairy Cattle Building, and Agricultural Building; History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit; Milwaukee Junction; Miss Detroit; Motown; Donald Murphy (serial killer) Musée Cadillac