Fun Facts About The Great Lakes State

MICHIGAN ESSENTIALS

• Q. What Michigan community grew from 3,589 to 45,615 residents from 1910 to 1920, leading the nation in growth during that period?
  A. Hamtramck
• Q. During the lumber boom era, what name was given to the row of saloons that lined Water Street in Bay City ?
  A. Hell's Half Mile
  
• Q In 1936, what UP city processed 100,000 sq. ft. of bird's eye maple for use in the English luxury liner, the Queen Mary?
  A. Escanaba
• Q. When the territory of Michigan was created, what town was selected as its capital?
  A. Detroit
• Q. Bloomfield Hills was first known by what name?
  A. Bagley's Corners
• Q. Where is the world's only marble lighthouse? A. Belle Isle-Livingston Lighthouse
• Q. Utica was originally known by what name?
  A. Hog's Hollow
• Q. Approx. how many lakes are there in the state?
  A. 11,000
• Q. The home offices of Life Savers candy, Beech-Nut gum and Squirt soft drink are in which city?
  A Holland
• Q. What coastline has been given the name 'Graveyard of the Great Lakes ' ?
  A. Whitefish Point, Lake Superior--Remember the Edmund Fitzgerald?
  NOTE: It was only the most famous ship lost there, but there have been many many more lost in that spot in the last hundred years.
  
• Q. In 1870, Detroit telephone customers became the first in the nation to have what type of reference information assigned to them?
  A. Telephone numbers
• Q. On Feb. 4, 1902, what internationally famous aviation pioneer was born in Detroit ?
  A. Charles A. Lindbergh
• Q. On what date did the star and stripes first fly over Michigan soil?
  A. July 11, 1796
• Q. What ambitious automotive pioneer organized GM. in 1908?
  A. William C. Durant