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Title: The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1846-1935
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, Ralph Durham Co.
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-, is the forty-third inthe Union. The eighty-three counties do notcontain many large cities, but the towns areprogressive, modern in public utilities, well-governed and prosperous. History, French Jesuit missionaries andtraders had visited Michigan as early as 1610,but the first permanent settlement wasfounded at Sault Sainte Marie by Marquetteand others in 1668. Numerous villages weresoon established, and Detroit was foundedin 1701. The territory made little progressunder French occu))ation, and in 1763 passedto the English by the Treaty of Paris. DuringPontiacs War the garrison at Mackinac wasmassacred, and Detroit was besieged for overfive montlis, but without success. In 1774the territory was annexed to Quebec, but bythe Treaty of Paris in 1783 it passed to theUnited States. Thereafter for several yearsthe Indians were restless, and they were notfinally subdued until 1795. T?W1 €^;^^ ¥m /// -e*^-
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MICHIGAN 2330 MICHIGAN Items of Interest on Michigan The upper peninsula is a land of min-ing, lumbering, hunting and summer out-ings; the lower peninsula is an agi-icul-tural and industrial region. The presence of the Great Lakes, espe-cially when the wind is on-shore, tendsto temper the climate of the shore re-gions; in the summer the water is coolerthan the land, and in the winter, becausethe lowest possible temperature is aboutthirty-two degi-ees, it is generally warmer. Though Michigan produces only onecomparatively unimportant crop greaterthan that of any other state, the mildclimate of the lower peninsula enablesthe farmers to raise a variety of products;no state except California seems morefavorably situated for fruit-raising. )Michigan produces nearly 28,000,000quarts of strawberries, blackberries, rasp-berries, peaches, pears, plums, andcherries. About 120,000,000 pounds of grapes,and 12,000,000 bushels of apples areraised each year. In 1909 Michigan produced nearly $10,-000

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