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Gushing 10,000 gallons a minute, Kitch-iti-kipi at Palms Book State Park near Manistique (pop. 3,583) is the state’s largest spring.

first appeared: 8/4/2002

After a soggy camping trip in a tent trailer, Arthur Sherman built his first Covered Wagon Co. travel trailer in 1929. By 1936, his factory in Mount Clemens (pop. 17,312) was the nation’s largest travel-trailer manufacturer, building 1,000 Covered Wagons a month.

first appeared: 7/28/2002

In 1973, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources launched a program to recognize anglers who catch the largest of 19 fish species. Today, the program includes 52 species found in lakes and rivers across the state.

first appeared: 7/21/2002

Houghton Lake is the state’s largest inland lake, covering 22,000 acres and having 30 miles of shoreline.

first appeared: 7/14/2002

In 1927, cousins Edwin Shoemaker and Edward Knabusch of Monroe (pop. 22,076) invented a wood-slat reclining porch chair, then upholstered it two years later. They considered calling it Sit-N-Snooze and Slack-Back, then settled on La-Z-Boy.

first appeared: 7/7/2002

First elected in 1990, four-term Gov. John M. Engler is America’s most senior governor. He was born Oct. 12, 1948, in Mount Pleasant (pop. 25,946) and grew up on his family’s farm near Beal City (pop. 345).

first appeared: 6/30/2002

George “The Gipper” Gipp, the first All-American football player for the University of Notre Dame, was born Feb. 18, 1895, in Laurium (pop. 2,126). Visited by Coach Knute Rockne hours before he died, Gipp told Rockne to “win one for the Gipper.”

first appeared: 6/23/2002

Sandstone bluffs towering along the Grand River inspired the naming of Grand Ledge (pop. 7,813) in 1850.

first appeared: 6/16/2002

The Michigan State Fair—America’s oldest—first was held in 1849, only 11 years after statehood.

first appeared: 6/9/2002

In the Dutch community of Holland (pop. 35,048), craftsmen carve wooden shoes from logs at the DeKlomp Wooden Shoe Factory. Really.

first appeared: 6/2/2002

Since 1691, four countries have flown flags over Niles (pop. 12,204): France, England, Spain, and the United States.

first appeared: 5/26/2002

Michigan led the nation in the production of potted geraniums in 2000, selling 17.7 million pots valued at $13.6 million.

first appeared: 5/19/2002

Sandstone cliffs in shades of brown and green, stained by minerals and sculpted by waves, rise from Lake Superior at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore near Munising (pop. 2,539).

first appeared: 5/12/2002

Rogers City (pop. 3,322) claims to have the world’s largest open pit limestone quarry. The 6,000-acre quarry produces 7 to 10.5 million tons of limestone annually.

first appeared: 5/5/2002

The Republican Party organized and held its first convention on July 6, 1854, in Jackson (pop. 36,316).

first appeared: 4/28/2002

Since being retired in 1967, the 1917 freighter Valley Camp has been berthed at Sault Ste. Marie (pop. 16,542) and serves as the Great Lakes’ largest maritime museum.

first appeared: 4/21/2002

Thomas E. Dewey, one-time governor of New York and two-time Republican presidential candidate, was born in Owosso (pop. 15,713) on March 24, 1902.

first appeared: 4/14/2002

In Michigan, license plates were first issued by individual cities beginning in 1903. Two years later, the Legislature required statewide vehicle registration.

first appeared: 4/7/2002

Michigan Technological University in Houghton (pop. 7,010) has the nation’s second- and third-largest degree-granting programs, respectively, in mechanical and materials science engineering.

first appeared: 3/31/2002

The Kirtland’s warbler, one of the world’s rarest songbirds, returns to the young jack pines near Grayling (pop. 1,952) each spring to breed and raise chicks. It summers only in Michigan and winters in the Bahamas.

first appeared: 3/24/2002

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