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An 1847 plat map of "the town of Michigan", prior to the selection of "Lansing" as the capital's name the following year. (The map is oriented with north to the right.) With the announcement that Lansing Township had been made the capital, the small settlement quickly transformed into the seat of state government.
The Michigan State Capitol is 267 feet (81 metres) from the ground to the tip of finial/spire above the dome. The building is 420 ft 2 in (128.07 m) long and 273 ft 11 in (83.49 m) wide (including approaches). The capitol occupies 1.16 acres (4,700 m 2), has a perimeter of 1,520 ft (460 m). [12]
Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States.It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio to the southeast, and the Canadian province of Ontario to the east, northeast and north.
Back to Detroit, I should say — Detroit was Michigan's first territorial capital, for obvious reasons, then the first state capital, before relocating to Lansing in 1847 for what, ...
From 1805 to 1847, Detroit was the territorial capital city of the old federal Michigan Territory (1805–1837), and later first state capital, in January 1837, when after 32 years, the old federal territory was admitted by act of the United States Congress and approved by seventh President Andrew Jackson (1769–1845, served 1829–1837), as ...
The panel's approval of a new state House map establishes the battle lines in Michigan's electoral landscape with several months to go until elections this fall to decide which party will control ...
Capital of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio. Vincennes (IN) 1800: Capital of the Territory of Indiana. Kaskaskia (IL) 1809: Capital of the Territory of Illinois. Detroit (MI) 1818: Capital of the Territory of Michigan. Belmont: 1836: Capitals of the Territory of Wisconsin. Burlington (IA) 1837 Madison: 1838 1848: Capital of the State ...
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