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The Yale Expositor in Yale (pop. 2,063) has been published since 1882 and is the city’s oldest business.

first appeared: 5/11/2003

With the completion in 1967 of a section of Interstate 94 between St. Clair Shores and Roseville (pop. 48,129), the state became the first to have a border-to-border interstate highway.

first appeared: 5/4/2003

The Michigan State Police started as a temporary emergency force for the purpose of domestic security during World War I. The force became permanent in 1919.

first appeared: 4/27/2003

While repairing the original floor in the 1848 Lightkeeper’s House in Copper Harbor in 1997, workers uncovered a crawlspace containing more than 500 artifacts, including bottles, china, thimbles, and a whittled toy boat.

first appeared: 4/20/2003

Open since 1866, the Croswell Opera House in Adrian (pop. 21,574) is among the oldest continuously operated theaters in the country.

first appeared: 4/13/2003

The elegant 1903 Opera House in Cheboygan (pop. 5,295) also houses city hall and the police and fire departments.

first appeared: 4/6/2003

From 1906 to 1981, the Aladdin Co. in Bay City (pop. 36,817) sold more than 75,000 mail-order kit homes that could be built in a day.

first appeared: 3/30/2003

While waiting for his fishing partner, James Heddon, a beekeeper and newspaperman in Dowagiac (pop. 6,147), tossed a whittled chunk of wood into a mill pond. A bass struck the plug and inspired the Dowagiac Expert fishing lure in 1902 and the beginning of Heddon’s fishing-tackle empire.

first appeared: 3/23/2003

With 10 million residents, Michigan is the eighth most populous state.

first appeared: 3/16/2003

The state’s only known cave, Bear Cave in Buchanan (pop. 4,681), appeared in the 1903 silent movie, The Great Train Robbery.

first appeared: 3/9/2003

Founded in 1888, the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association is the nation’s oldest collegiate athletic conference.

first appeared: 3/2/2003

Ice climbers thrill to the challenge of picking their way up 200-foot frozen waterfalls at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior near Munising (pop. 2,539).

first appeared: 2/23/2003

For 15 years, Brenda Bell challenged her students at Chester Miller Elementary in Saginaw to find a word without vowels in the English language. Psst! Tyler Mayle found one last September and won the $50 prize.

first appeared: 2/16/2003

Born in Kalamazoo County, Olympia Brown (1835-1926) was a well-known stump speaker for women’s rights and one of the nation’s first women ordained as a minister. She served as an officer of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the Federal Suffrage Association and worked tirelessly for passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

first appeared: 2/9/2003

Auctioneer Bill Sheridan of Mason (pop. 6,714) talked his way to $10,000 in cash and prizes at the 2002 International Auctioneer Championship in Orlando, Fla.

first appeared: 2/2/2003

Michigan’s oldest courthouse now houses the 1839 Courthouse Museum in Berrien Springs (pop. 1,862).

first appeared: 1/26/2003

Michigan leads the nation in blueberry production, growing nearly 45 percent of all blueberries eaten in the United States.

first appeared: 1/19/2003

Built in 1952, the S.S. Badger is the only ferry of its kind still operating on Lake Michigan. It can transport 180 vehicles and more than 600 passengers during its regular 60-mile, four-hour cruise between Ludington (pop. 8,357) and Manitowoc, Wis. (pop. 34,053).

first appeared: 1/12/2003

Founded in 1847 by a Dutch religious colony, Zeeland (pop. 5,805) is named after the Province of Zeeland in the Netherlands, from where the colonists came.

first appeared: 1/5/2003

Covering 32,000 square miles, Lake Superior, which forms the state’s northern boundary, is the largest freshwater lake in the world.

first appeared: 12/29/2002

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