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The history of human activity in Michigan, a U.S. state in the Great Lakes, began with settlement of the western Great Lakes region by Paleo-Indians perhaps as early as 11,000 B.C.E. One early technology they developed was the use of native copper, which they would fashion into tools and other implements with "hammer stones". [1] [2] The first Europeans to arrive in Michigan were the French ...
Natural history 13000 BC to 12000 BC The most recent of four major glaciers ( Wisconsin glaciation) started to recede, leaving a tundra -like environment. The melting ice formed the Great Lakes, the Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula (in the Michigan Basin ). 12800 BC Mastodons and other ice age mammals started to appear in the fossil record. 11000 BC to 9000 BC Archeological evidence of ...
History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan: A Chronological Cyclopedia of the Past and Present., Google version; full text Fuller, George Newman (2005) [1928?].
Michigan Central Station was set to open in 1914, but a fire at the existing train station forced an early opening. The first train headed from Detroit toward Saginaw Bay on Dec. 26, 1913.
Here are some fun facts, notable days in history and more about the great State of Michigan.
History and government[edit] The earliest European explorers of Michigan saw it mostly as a place to control the fur trade. Small military forces, Jesuit missions to Native American tribes, and isolated settlements of trappers and traders accounted for most of the non-native inhabitants of what would become Michigan.
Railroads have been vital in the history of the population and trade of rough and finished goods in the state of Michigan. While some coastal settlements had previously existed, the population, commercial, and industrial growth of the state further bloomed with the establishment of the railroad. The state's proximity to Ontario, Canada, aided ...
I was an adult before I learned of Michigan Central Station's ties to Black history | Opinion. It was June 1977, and 30 or so children had gathered at the entrance of the Michigan Central Station ...