Michigan
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- Names
Michigan
MI
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Inhabited by Ojibwa, Ottawa, Potawatomi and others when French arrived in 18th cen.; taken by England in 1760s, by USA in Revolution and again in War of 1812; most Amerindians were forced west in 19th cen.; pro-Union in Civil War, noted for African regiment.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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