State Information
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Michigan
"the twenty sixth state" quarter struck by
the mint on
December 22, 2003 |
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| The quarter's stateside face depicts an outline of the
Great Lakes surrounding Michigan along with the states nickmame and famous state images,
the white pine, North Star, a lighthouse, the Mackinac Bridge, an antique automobile, and
a canoe. These all are synbols distinctively unique to Michigan, |
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Admitted
to Union: |
January 26, 1837 |
Bits of History
Update:
Lizzie Borden
took an axe
and gave her mother forty
whacks; When she saw what she
had done, She gave her father forty-one. This rhyme refers to
what true murder mystery in
1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts?
 Arch Rock and Mackinac Island
History. |
| Order
Admitted: |
26 |
| Capital:
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Lansing |
| Largest
City: |
Detroit |
| Nickname: |
The Wolverine State
The Great Lakes State |
| State
Bird: |
Robin |
| State
Flower: |
Apple Blossom |
| State
Tree: |
White Pine |
| State
Motto: |
If You
See a Pleasant Peninsula, Look About You |
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State Name Origin:
Believed to be from the Chippewa word micigama, meaning "great water,"
after Lake Michigan,
although Alouet defined it in 1692 as designating a clearing.
Fun State Facts:
Michigan has a population of 9,632,100, 8th in the nation. Its land area is 56,809 square
miles,
22nd in the nation. The highest point is Mount Arvon at 1,979 feet above sea level. In
1908
the first Ford Model T was built. In 1974 Gerald R. Ford from Grand Rapids became the 38th
President of the United States. It thought by some that Michigan got it's unoffical
nickname from
the Ohioians because of the Toledo War in 1835. Several famous persons born in Michigan
are tennis player Serna Williams from Saginaw, George ("The Gipper") Gipp, the
Hall of Fame
football player for Notre Dame, from Laurim.
"Win one for the Gipper"
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