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    Territorial Road was the first main road through Michigan, from Detroit to Chicago, Illinois. In the 19th century, it led people from the Eastern United...
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    to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital. The earliest European explorers of Michigan saw it mostly as a place to control...
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  • Toledo War (redirect from Ohio-Michigan War)
    through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east ... until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line [with British North America, now...
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    southernmost point of Lake Michigan and along the western shore north to the territorial boundary in Lake Superior and then along the territorial boundary through...
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    Trail, an All-American Road in the National Scenic Byways Program. It has also been designated a Pure Michigan Byway by the Michigan Department of Transportation...
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    governor of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and in the Michigan Senate from...
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    Full Record of Territorial Days in Michigan, and the Annals of Wayne County. p. 94. Retrieved June 15, 2006 – via University of Michigan Library. Pence...
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    with another Huron River south of Detroit, on July 17, 1824, the Michigan Territorial Legislature renamed both the township and the river after DeWitt...
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    territorial road (later called Territorial Road) in 1829. The State Trunkline Highway System was created on May 13, 1913, by an act of the Michigan Legislature;...
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    along the Michigan Central Railroad. The community itself is a designated Michigan State Historic Site and also contains the Territorial Road historic...
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    of Michigan. It runs from the Ohio state line north to Litchfield through rural Hillsdale County. M-49 is the only Michigan highway in which the road crossing...
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    called for the election of a western legislative council (the Seventh Michigan Territorial Council), which became known as the Rump Council. This council was...
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    communities in Metro Detroit. Shelby Township was set off by an act of the Michigan Territorial Legislature on April 12, 1827, and a civil government was organized...
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    Indiana was moved 10 miles northward from its territorial position to give Indiana more access to Lake Michigan, and its slightly angled border with Ohio...
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    the Michigan Territorial Council on March 17, 1835, and the first township meeting was held on April 16, 1835, two years before the State of Michigan was...
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    established as a separate self-administered county by an act of the Michigan Territorial Legislature, in 1826. It was attached for administrative purposes...
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  • townships by the Michigan Territorial Legislature in a major reorganization of Wayne County. Jennifer Herman (January 1, 1999). Michigan Encyclopedia. State...
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    century. After being assigned to various territorial jurisdictions, it was granted to the newly formed state of Michigan as part of the settlement of a dispute...
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    Braddock's Road which led to the Atlantic Coast. The Michigan Territory was established in 1805, and the territorial governor established the first road districts...
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    /ˈmækənə/ MAK-ə-nə) is a city in Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 583. Established as...
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    Livingston County (/lɪvɪŋstən/ LIV-ing-stən) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 193,866. It is part of the...
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    subsequent modifications to its foundational charter, as codified in the Michigan Territorial Act of 1817, which served as the primordial basis for its organic...
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    Territorial evolution of Oregon Territorial evolution of South Dakota Territorial evolution of Utah Territorial evolution of Washington Territorial evolution...
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    (110 km2) area of land south of Detroit was designated a township by the Michigan Territorial Council on April 5, 1827, when Moses Roberts was elected its first...
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    limits, Michigan Avenue is a Pure Michigan Byway named Marshall's Territorial Road, (of the state-wide Territorial Road). The western half of Michigan Avenue...
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    of the Michiana region. The county is named for Lewis Cass, the Michigan Territorial Governor at the time the county was created in 1829. Cass later served...
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    Lansing-East Lansing, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1822, the Michigan Territorial legislature defined a new county, Shiawassee (named for the river)...
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  • Southeastern Michigan by an individual known as the Ypsilanti Ripper, the Michigan Murderer, and the Co-Ed Killer. All the victims of the Michigan Murderer...
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    influential player in European politics and a vital cultural entity. Territorial changes before and during the Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385), ending with...
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    that runs from Jacksonville, Florida, to Mackinaw City, Michigan. In the US state of Michigan, it is a major, 362-mile-long (583 km), north–south state...
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