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The Michigan History Museum is the flagship facility of the Michigan History Museum System, a 12-site state bureau that operates a variety of publicly interpreted historical museums and locations throughout Michigan. The Michigan History Museum has a press outreach program as of 2024, and actively encourages visitation by state residents and ...
Big Rapids is a city and the seat of government of Mecosta County, Michigan, United States. The population was 7,727 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] down from 10,601 in 2010 . [ 5 ] The city is surrounded by Big Rapids Charter Township but they are completely separate jurisdictions.
The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan, displays a wide variety of everyday artifacts depicting the history of racist portrayals of African Americans in American popular culture. [1] The mission of the Jim Crow Museum is to use objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social ...
Grand Rapids Art Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Art: Renaissance to Modern art, with strength in European and American 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture Grand Rapids Children's Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Children's: website: Grand Rapids Public Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Local history ...
US Highway 131 (US 131) is a north–south United States Highway, of which all but 0.64 of its 269.96 miles (1.03 of 434.46 km) are within the state of Michigan.The highway starts in rural Indiana south of the state line as a state road connection to the Indiana Toll Road.
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The Lansing capitol building inspired a national trend after the American Civil War for fireproof buildings, large enough to house expanding government as well as serving as a durable repository for artifacts of the war, [12] including battle flags that were moved to the Michigan Historical Museum in 1990. Over the years the dome, which at ...
Idlewild: The Black Eden of Michigan by Professor Ronald J. Stephens, University of Nebraska ISBN 0-7385-1890-5; History: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams and Idlewild by Professor Ronald J. Stephens, University of Nebraska “Michigan’s Other Motown” Lakeshore Guardian article by Randy Karr Archived October 26, 2006, at the Wayback Machine