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The 1931 art deco DeTour Reef Light on Lake Huron shines on after residents of DeTour (pop. 894) and Drummond Island raised $1 million, beginning in 1998, to restore it.

first appeared: 1/16/2005

Built in 1887, Langley Covered Bridge near Centreville (pop. 1,579) is Michigan's longest covered bridge, stretching 282 feet across the St. Joseph River.

first appeared: 1/2/2005

In the Upper Peninsula, Baraga County is home to the state’s highest peak, Mount Avron at 1,979 feet. The county was named for Father Frederic Baraga, the first bishop of Marquette, author of A Short History of the North American Indians (1837) and compiler of the first known Ojibwa Indian grammar in 1850.

first appeared: 12/19/2004

The heat in hot peppers is measured in Scoville units, a system devised in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, a Detroit pharmacologist. The scale ranges form zero for the mild bell pepper to 350,000 for the fiery Scotch Bonnet.

first appeared: 12/5/2004

Founded in 1946, the Barn Theatre in Augusta (pop. 899) is the state's oldest professional summer stock theater.

first appeared: 11/21/2004

The Lake Michigan resort community of Michiana (pop. 200) is named for its location on the Michigan and Indiana state line.

first appeared: 11/7/2004

In 1950, diplomat Ralph Johnson Bunche, a Detroit native, became the first African-American to win a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating armistice agreements that halted the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-1949.

first appeared: 10/24/2004

Volunteers built the Grand Haven Musical Fountain, the world’s largest musical fountain, in 1962 in Grand Haven (pop. 11,168). The fountain pumps 40,000 gallons of water through 8,000 feet of pipes.

first appeared: 10/10/2004

Belle Isle, an island park on the Detroit River, was bought by the city of Detroit in 1879 and boasts an aquarium, museum, gardens, and hiking and biking trails.

first appeared: 10/3/2004

Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, creator of Fahrenheit 9/11, was born in 1954 in Davison (pop. 5,536).

first appeared: 9/19/2004

Twenty percent of the nation’s seed corn is grown within 30 miles of Constantine (pop. 2,095), officially named “Seed Corn Capital of the World” in 2003.

first appeared: 9/12/2004

Twenty million documents relating to Gerald Ford’s presidency are housed at the Gerald R. Ford Library at his alma mater, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

first appeared: 9/5/2004

The odds of winning the state’s $1 million scratch-off lottery are 1 in 623,825 and Russell Tanner of Dexter (pop. 5,248) beat the odds twice—in 2002 and 2004.

first appeared: 8/29/2004

Lake Express, the first high-speed ferry boat on the Great Lakes, began operating in June and crosses Lake Michigan in about two-and-a-half hours between Muskegon (pop. 40,105) and Milwaukee.

first appeared: 8/22/2004

Look closely and you can see the escape apparatus used by Houdini and thousands of magicians’ props at the American Museum of Magic in Marshall (pop. 7,459).

first appeared: 8/15/2004

At more than 200 feet wide with a 50-foot drop, Tahquamenon Falls near Paradise (pop. 4,191) is one of the largest waterfalls east of the Mississippi River.

first appeared: 8/8/2004

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke, born in 1908 in Saginaw (pop. 61,799), credited working in his family’s greenhouse with inspiring his poetry.

first appeared: 8/1/2004

Guests rise and shine at the largest lighthouse built on the Great Lakes, the 1917 Sand Hills Lighthouse Inn in Ahmeek (pop. 157).

first appeared: 7/25/2004

The Detroit Zoo’s Arctic Ring of Life is the world’s largest polar bear exhibit and boasts a clear, underwater 70-foot tunnel.

first appeared: 7/18/2004

The Scottville (pop. 1,266) Clown Band, which traces its roots to a 1903 city band, performs to raise money for scholarships and community projects.

first appeared: 7/11/2004

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