Michigan

The Wolverine State

Detroit is known as the car capital of the world. Michigan has more than 11,000 inland lakes and more than 36,000 miles of streams. Michigan also has 116 lighthouses and navigational lights. Michigan is surrounded by almost four of the fresh water Great Lakes and is unique because it is divided into two peninsulas joined by a suspension bridge that spans the Straits of Mackinac.
This ancestral land of many American Indian tribes, was literally sculptured into its present shape by massive Ice Age glaciers. The Upper Peninsula is a beautiful, rugged, sparsely populated place, where severe winters are commonplace. The Lower Peninsula, home to most of the people, is dotted by small towns, large cities and fertile farmland in all directions plus the shorelines of Michigan are covered by over 115 lighthouses.

This quiet Midwestern state became economically powerful in the 20th century due to the automobile giants of Detroit and the upstate logging and mining industries built around the shipping lanes of the Great Lakes. Dairy products, apples, blueberries, cattle, vegetables, hogs, corn, nursery stock, soybeans make up the agricultural sectors and the industrial sector in motor vehicles and parts, machinery, fabricated metal products, food processing, chemical products, mining and tourism.

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Quick Facts

Population: over 9 million
Size: 96,810 square miles
Per Capita Personal Income: $35,086 as of 2007
Capital: Lansing

Professional Sports Teams

Football (AFL, NFL): Detroit Fury, Cedar Rapids Rampage, Detroit Lions

Basketball: Detroit Pistons
Basketball (Women's): Detroit Shock

Baseball: Detroit Tigers

Hockey: Detroit Red Wings

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That some people believe that Ohioans gave Michigan the nickname �The Wolverine State� around 1835 during a dispute over the Toledo strip, a piece of land along the border between Ohio and Michigan. Rumors in Ohio at the time described Michiganians as being as vicious and bloodthirsty as wolverines.

That the Kellogg Company has made Battle Creek the Cereal Capital of the World? The Kellogg brothers accidentally discovered the process for producing flaked cereal products and sparked the beginning of the dry cereal industry.

That Vernors ginger ale was created in Detroit and became the first soda pop made in the United States?

That the Detroit Zoo was the first zoo in America to feature cageless, open-exhibits that allowed the animals more freedom to roam.

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