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The Music House Museum in Acme (pop. 650) has a collection of automatic musical instruments, including player pianos, nickelodeons, phonographs, and jukeboxes.

first appeared: 6/10/2001

Green Meadow Farm in Elsie (pop. 1,084) is home to the world’s largest registered Holstein herd. Founded by Merle Green in 1917, the farm has about 6,500 cattle on 6,500 acres.

first appeared: 6/3/2001

John Knobla caught the world’s largest tiger muskellunge July 16, 1919, on Lac Vierx-Desert Indian Reservation. It weighed 51 pounds, 3 ounces and was 54 inches long.

first appeared: 5/27/2001

Vanderbilt (pop. 1,051) holds the all-time lowest temperature record for the state: minus 51 degrees on Feb. 19, 1934.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

Jean Baptiste Roucout became the first professional schoolteacher in what would become the state of Michigan in 1760 when he taught students at his home in Detroit.

first appeared: 5/13/2001

A tourism train, the Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road Co., near Blissfield, (pop. 3,296) travels a route where tracks were first laid down in 1836 by the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad.

first appeared: 5/6/2001

On July 13, 1936, the mercury in Mio (pop. 1,886) climbed to 112 degrees, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the state.

first appeared: 4/29/2001

Whirlpool Corp., headquartered in Benton Harbor (pop. 11,719), was founded in 1911 in St. Joseph as Upton Machine Co. to produce electric wringer-washing machines.

first appeared: 4/22/2001

Citing its fragrance and beauty, the state Legislature adopted the apple blossom as the official state flower in 1897.

first appeared: 4/15/2001

Gull Island in Grand Traverse Bay is the largest breeding place in the Great Lakes for cormorants and herring gulls, which arrive by the thousands each spring to raise their young. The five-acre preserve, owned by the Leelanlau Conservancy, is a few miles from Northport (pop. 616).

first appeared: 4/8/2001

Author Bruce Catton, best known for his Civil War writings, was born in Petoskey (pop 7,770) on Oct. 9, 1899. His most famous book, Stillness at Appomattox, earned him a Pulitzer Prize.

first appeared: 4/1/2001

The Hoegh Pet Casket Co. in Gladstone (pop. 4,661) makes coffins for pets. The coffins come in eight sizes, from 20 to 52 inches long, and cost from $24.50 to $265.

first appeared: 3/25/2001

S&H Green Stamps began when Thomas Sperry and Shelly Hutchinson of Jackson started issuing trading stamps to customers in 1896. For every dollar spent in their store, a customer received one stamp that could be redeemed for merchandise later.

first appeared: 3/18/2001

Michigan ranks first in the United States in the production of peat and magnesium compounds and second in gypsum and iron ore.

first appeared: 3/11/2001

Skiing enthusiast and banker Carl Tellefsen, who immigrated from Norway to Ishpeming (pop. 6,054), formed the National Ski Association in 1904.

first appeared: 3/4/2001

Stevie Wonder, born Steveland Morris in Saginaw on May 13, 1950, grew up in Detroit and learned to play musical instruments because his mother was afraid to let her blind son out of the house.

first appeared: 2/25/2001

In 1887, Muskegon produced 665 million board feet of lumber, its highest output ever. Now the city’s leading industries are more diverse—producing aerospace, chemical, auto, plastic, office furniture, metal, and paper products.

first appeared: 2/18/2001

Apples are Michigan’s top fruit crop. The state produced a record 29.7 million bushels of apples in 1999, ranking it third in the nation behind Washington and New York.

first appeared: 2/11/2001

—The novel Anatomy of a Murder was written in 1957 by Robert Traver, the pen name used by attorney John Voelker of Ishpeming (pop. 6,034), a former Marquette County prosecutor who later served on the state Supreme Court.

first appeared: 2/4/2001

—A local judge named Ypsilanti (pop. 22,904) after a Greek general who fought for Greek independence from Turkey in 1821.

first appeared: 1/28/2001

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