Moving Companies in Michigan (MI)

MICHIGAN

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Here is a brief introduction to the state of Michigan.

Capital City: Lansing
Nicknames: Wolverine State

Population over 10 million residents

State’s Flag: Michigan’s flag shows a bald eagle, an elk, and a moose holding a shield that bears the Latin word Tuebor (“I will defend”). The flag was adopted in 1911.

Four of the five Great Lakes-Michigan, Superior, Huron, and Erie-lap at the shores of Michigan; in fact, no point in the state is more than 85 miles from one lake or another. Separated by the 41h-mile-wide Straits of Mackinac, the state’s two peninsulas are as distinct in character as the lakes that frame them. Poking eastward from Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula is the more rugged of the two, a sparsely populated wilderness with long, snowbound winters and rocky terrain. The Lower Peninsula contains some of the Midwest’s largest industrial centers, including Detroit, one of America’s 10 most populous cities and home of the automobile industry.

Michigan was created some 15,000 years ago, when glaciers bulldozed their way across the upper Midwest, scooping out the lakes and then filling them in with melt water. Long before Europeans appeared, the area was inhabited by Native Americans. Sustained by the abundant wildlife in the region’s forests, Michigan’s Algonquin Indian tribes - the Ottawa, the Chippewa, and the Potawatomi - built a thriving culture.

The first Europeans to arrive in Michigan and the upper Great Lakes came in the early 1600s. Etienne Brule explored the Upper Peninsula in 1620, and French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette established the first permanent white settlement at Sault Ste. Marie in 1668. The vast majority of the early arrivals came in search of furs. Forging close trading ties with Michigan’s Indians, French trappers transformed the region into a vital arm of the burgeoning French fur empire centered in Montreal. No significant attempts were made to establish more permanent settlements, however, until 1701, when Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac secured the support of French king Louis XIV to found La Ville d’Etroit (“Village of the Strait”) at the strategic narrows connecting Lakes Huron and Erie. Cadillac’s town-Detroit-soon became a thriving commercial outpost and Michigan’s largest city, a distinction it has retained for nearly 300 years.

In 1763 Britain gains Michigan from France in treaty ending French and Indian War. In 1783 Britain cedes Michigan to United States. In 1805 Michigan is established as a U.S. territory. In 1796 American flag is raised in Michigan for first time as British leave Detroit. In 1805 Michigan is established as a U.S. territory. In 1819 Indians cede 6 million acres and begin to leave Michigan and in 1837 Michigan joins the Union as 26^th state.  Ransom E. aids establishes Michigan’s first automobile factory in Detroit in 1899. Ford introduces Model T. General Motors is founded in 1908. In 1974 Former Michigan congressman Gerald R. Ford becomes U.S. president. In 2001 Detroit celebrates its 300^th anniversary.      

Service industries: Banking, insurance, real estate, health care.

Manufacturing: Transportation equipment, machinery.

Agriculture: Corn, wheat, cherries.

Mining: Natural gas, iron ore.

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