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The Michigan State Fair is an annual event originally held from 1849 to 2009 in Detroit, the state's largest city. In 2009 the governor declined to fund it because of other priorities. Because agriculture still has a major place in the Michigan economy, in 2011 supporters organized the Great Lakes Agricultural Fair, a 501 C (3) organization, in ...
Imlay City, Michigan. / 43.02250°N 83.07778°W / 43.02250; -83.07778. Imlay City is a city in Lapeer County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,707 at the 2020 census .
The first formal census in 1845 recorded a population of 1,510 [21] and an area of 4 square miles (10 km 2). [21] The city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. [22] It was officially established on May 2, 1850, when the village of Grand Rapids voted to accept the proposed city charter. The population at the time was 2,686.
The Michigan State Fair, the oldest state fair in the United States, was held here until 2009. The coliseum has also been the long-time venue of Detroit performances by the Shrine Circus. Between 1999 and 2008, the Coliseum was home to the Wayne State University Warriors ice hockey team. Wayne State played its first collegiate hockey season in ...
M-53 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that connects Detroit to The Thumb region. The highway starts in Detroit at a connection with M-3 and ends in Port Austin, Michigan at M-25. In between, the trunkline passes through the northern suburbs of Metro Detroit, connects to freeways like Interstate 69 (I-69 ...
The Michigan State Fair takes place Aug. 31 through Sept. 4 in Novi. A Great Pumpkin contest, farmland display, water acrobat show are new offerings. Michigan State Fair begins Aug. 31 in Novi
The Upper Peninsula State Fair ( UP State Fair) is a fair held annually in the Upper Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. It is held in Escanaba in mid-August of each year. [1] Prior to 2010, it was one of two official state fairs in Michigan. In April 1927, Michigan Governor Fred W. Green signed Act 89, which stated that "an annual state ...
At the peak last week, Michigan had more than 800,000 outages from rain turning to ice and then bringing down tree limbs and lines. Some residents, like Jo Ann Davis in Livingston County, still ...