Get to know our Great Lakes State with some Michigan Facts.

Brush up on your Michigan trivia knowledge for our MADE-IN-MICHIGAN weekend June 12-14!

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  • Tecumseh was one of the first 3 establishments of the Michigan Territory.
  • Michigan is part of the Great Lakes Region.
  • There are 5 Great Lakes: Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Ontario
  • Lake Ontario is the only Great Lake that Michigan does not touch
  • Michigan was once mostly marshes and dense forests inhabited by Native American Tribes
  • Tribes in the area are: Anishnabe, Chippewa, Ottawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Huron, Fox, Sauk, Kikapoo, Menominee, Miami,
  • Tecumseh is named for the Great Warrior Chief Tecumseh who is said to have battled these grounds and lived nearby in what is now Ohio.
  • Apple Blossom is the Michigan State Flower.
  • White Pine is the Michigan State Tree

 

  • Michigan has produced many famous people including these:  Tim Allen, Curtis Armstrong, Hank Ballard, Kristen Bell, Elizabeth Berkley, Selma Blair, Larry Joe Campbell, Alice Cooper, Terry Crews, Jeff Daniels, Eminem, Kid Rock, Dann Florek, Henry Ford, Aretha Franklin, Glenn Frey, Earvin Magic Johnson, Casey Kasem, Will Kellog, Charles Lindbergh, Madonna, Ted Nugent, Sugar Ray Robinson, Diana Ross, Bob Seger, Tom Selleck, David Spade, James Vernor, Stevie Wonder
  • Vernors, a popular ginger-ale was created in 1866 in Detroit by a pharmacist.
  • Kellogg Cereal made Battle Creek, Michigan Cereal Capital of the World!
  • Expressway I-75 connects Michigan all the way to Florida.
  • Detroit is Michigan’s largest city and was originally the state capital.
  • Lansing became the capital city in 1848.
  • Michigan is known as the land of 11,000 lakes and 11,000 mosquitos!
  • Believe it! Michigan has more shoreline than the entire Atlantic seaboard.
  • Michigan is home to 116 lighthouses with many as historical sites.
  • Michigan is proud of its National Parks, Isle Royale and Pictured Rocks of the U.P and Sleeping Bear Dunes of the L.P.
  • Michiganders that live in the Upper Peninsula are commonly called Yoopers or U.P.ers
  • Mackinac Bridge connects the Lower Peninsula to the Upper Peninsula; It is the fifth largest suspension bridge in the world!  It is 26,372 feet long and rests 200 feet above water level.