Antique maps and prints of the State of Michigan.

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Topography: Michigan consists of two peninsu!as, known as the Upper and the Lower, and of number of islands in Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. The total area is 58,915 square miles, or 37,705,600 acres.

The lower Peninsula consists of plains and table land with occasional prairie and much timber, while the Upper is rugged and rocky, broken up by hills, which in the western portion rise to the height of 2,000 feet. The length of the Lower Peninsula from north to south is 277 miles; its greatest breadth, east, and west, 259 miles.

Saginaw and Thunder Bays on Lake Huron, and Grand and Little Traverse Bays on Lake Michigan, form natural harbors of great size. The surface is generally level, but there are some irregular hills in the south, and the bluffs and sand hills bordering on lake Michigan are from 100 to 300 feet high.

The Upper Peninsula is 318 miles in length from east to west, and from thirty to 164 miles in width. The western portion of the peninsula is largely given up to mining, but in the east farming is attended with the most favorable results. The total length of the Lake shore is1,620 miles, exclusive of the frequent bays and inlets, and the State contains numerous rivers and small lakes.

The principal islands are Isle Royal and Grand Island, in Lake Superior; Marquette, Mackinaw and Bois Blanc, in lake Huron, and the Beaver, Fox and Manitou groups in the northern part of Lake Michigan.

The climate of the southern portion is comparatively mild, but that of the northern is cold and rigorous in winter.

The mean annual temperature at Detroit for nineteen years was 47.25º Fahrenheit, and at the Sault Ste Marie 40.37º; a difference of 7º.

The peach orchards and vineyards along the entire fruit belt from St. Joseph to Grand Traverse Bay, prove that the climate is not so severe as to interfere with fruit raising. The average annual rainfall at Detroit is 30.07 inches, and at Sault Ste. Marie 31.35 inches.

The mean summer temperature at the two points named was 67.60º and 62º respectively. At Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula, the annual mean was 38.3º, and the average rainfall 23.46 inches.

History: Michigan was the thirteenth State admitted into the union under the Federal constitution, and came in virtue of the act of Congress of Jan 26, 1837.

The first white settlement within the limits of Michigan was made by Father Marquette, who in 1668 founded a mission at Saulte Ste. Marie. Three years later Fort Michilimackinac (now Mackinaw) was established by the French. Detroit was founded in 1701, and the whole territory was nominally under the jurisdiction of France until 1763, when Great Britain assumed control of all the French possessions.

This was followed by the conspiracy of Pontiac. Detroit was besieged and the garrison at Fort Mackinaw were slaughtered. At the close of the war of Independence the territory passed under the jurisdiction of Virginia, and on July 13, 1787, it became a part of the "Northwest Territory," then created by ordinance.

In 1805 the Territory of Michigan was created, with Detroit as the seat of government. The boundaries were not those of the present State; it at one time extended westward to the Missouri river, and did not include the Upper Peninsula, which was incorporated with the State in 1837, in place of disputed ground. Michigan bore the brunt of the war of 1812-14.

The British troops captured Mackinaw and Frenchtown, and devastated the country generally, with the help of their Indian allies. They were finally driven out by General (afterwards President) Harrison, and in 1814 a treaty was made with the Indians.

What is now Wisconsin was annexed to the Territory in 1818 and 1834, and was formed into Wisconsin Territory in 1836.

The first State constitution was adopted in 1836, and by a legislative act of March 16, 1847, the capital was transferred to Lansing, in Ingham county.

A new constitution was adopted in 1850, which, with subsequent amendments, is now in force. Michigan contributed 87,364 men to the Union armies during the Civil war.

Population: Census of 1880: Males, 862.355; Females, 774,582; Native, 1,248,429; Foreign, 388,508; White, 1,614,560; Colored, 22,377, including 37 Chinese, 1 Japanese, 7,249 Indians and Half-breeds.

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