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The five-mile Mackinac Bridge connecting Michigan?s two peninsulas opened Nov. 1, 1957. The bridge?s central span measures 3,800 feet between its twin towers, making it the third-largest span of its kind in the world. About 2 million vehicles cross the bridge annually.

first appeared: 7/2/2000

An estimated 3,000 shipwrecks rest on the bottom of the five Great Lakes-among them, the Edmund Fitzgerald, lost on Lake Superior in 1975, 17 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, Mich. The ship was the subject of a well-known Gordon Lightfoot song.

first appeared: 6/18/2000

Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary and explorer, established Michigan’s earliest European settlements at Sault Ste. Marie (pop. 15,300) and St. Ignace (pop. 2,584) in 1668 and 1671, respectively. He is immortalized at the Father Marquette National Memorial and Museum, which overlooks the Straits of Mackinac in St. Ignace.

first appeared: 6/4/2000

Michigan is known as the "Wolverine State," but the carnivorous mammal hasn’t inhabited the state since at least the turn of the century. The state has plenty of other wildlife, however, including beavers, black bears, bobcats, deer, elk, gray wolves, and moose.

first appeared: 5/21/2000

The five Great Lakes - Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior-are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world. They contain one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water.

first appeared: 5/7/2000

If you head due south from Sans Souci, Mich., about 15 miles east of Detroit, the first foreign nation you will reach is Canada. (Sans Souci is French for without worry.)

first appeared: 4/23/2000

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