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  2. Timeline of Michigan history - Wikipedia

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    1813 Lewis Cass became Territorial Governor. 1817 The University of Michigan was established in Detroit, the first public university in the state. 1818 The British ceded control of the Upper Peninsula and the St. Clair River islands to the U.S. after the Treaty of Ghent and border negotiations were concluded.

  3. History of Michigan - Wikipedia

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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".

  4. Michigan Territory - Wikipedia

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    Michigan. Wisconsin Territory. The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, [ 1] until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital.

  5. Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.It borders Wisconsin to the northwest in the Upper Peninsula, and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula; it is also connected by Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie to Minnesota and Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario.

  6. Paleontology in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Among Michigan's early significant fossil finds was the 1839 discovery of the state's first scientifically documented American mastodon remains. [11] Later in the 19th century was the 1877 discovery of five Pleistocene peccaries ( Platygonus compressus ) in an Ionia County peat bog located near the town of Belding .

  7. History of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, was settled in 1701 by French colonists. It is the first European settlement above tidewater in North America. [ 1] Founded as a New France fur trading post, it began to expand during the 19th century with U.S. settlement around the Great Lakes.

  8. History of Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    East Ann Arbor incorporated as a city from portions of Pittsfield Township in 1947 and was named due to its proximity to Ann Arbor. In 1957, Ann Arbor annexed the city into its boundaries, and East Ann Arbor ceased to exist. [ 5][ 6] Barton Dam under construction in 1912. In 1960, Ann Arbor was the site of major speeches by both major ...

  9. Michigan in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Before the Civil War, President James Buchanan took a weak position amid a looming South secession crisis. [1] Secretary of State Lewis Cass of Michigan, a 78-year-old elder statesman who had been Michigan's U.S. senator and governor of Michigan Territory, resigned from Buchanan's cabinet in protest, remarking that "he had seen the Constitution born and now feared he was seeing it die".

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