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Group of Cornerstone University ornithology students at Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. A destination at the biological station is the Bird Sanctuary. Modeled after a similar wildlife refuge in Canada, the Bird Sanctuary is home to many wild birds and waterfowl, including trumpeter swan, Canada geese, diving and dabbling ducks, herons, cranes, songbirds, and more.
Statue of John Ball in Grand Rapids. The original 40 acres (16 ha) was donated to the city by noted pioneer and explorer John Ball upon his death in 1884. Shortly after, another 100 acres (40 ha) was added and this marked the beginning of additional amenities, including ponds, a theater, a band shell, playgrounds, ball fields, trails, and the zoo.
The former Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building on Central Campus, looking towards the northeast. The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, formerly known as the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, began in the mid-19th century and expanded greatly with the donation of 60,000 specimens by Joseph Beal Steere, a U-M alumnus, in the 1870s.
The university's natural history collections began in 1837, and the first formal museum for their exhibit was established in 1881. In 1925, the state legislature appropriated $900,000 (equivalent to $12,500,000 in 2023) for the construction of a new museum building, which would house researchers' offices and public exhibits.
Arborland was Ann Arbor's first suburban mall, opened in the early 1960s. The original Arborland featured JCPenney, [2] Kresge, Kroger, and Montgomery Ward among its anchor stores. In 1973, the larger Briarwood Mall opened, and JCPenney moved to a newer store there. Competition from Briarwood caused Arborland to lose tenants throughout the end ...
The College of Natural Science (NatSci) at Michigan State University is home to 27 departments and programs in the biological, physical and mathematical sciences. [1] The college averages $83M in research expenditures annually and claims to have more than 6,500 undergraduate majors and nearly 1,000 graduate students.
Trenton is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.At the 2010 census, the city population was 18,853. [4]A Shawnee village was built in the area by war chief Blue Jacket after the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
By 1837 a number of simple log farmhouses dotted the area, and the settlement boasted over 200 people, 34 houses, [4] three dry goods stores, a wagon shop, tannery, shoe shops, a foundry, a cooper shop, carpenter shop and a hoopskirt factory. [3] Hoxie's Settlement was incorporated as the village of Romeo in 1838. [3]