State Song (Unofficial)

Michigan My Michigan – AN official State Song  CR 17 of 1937  p. 321 passed March 3^rd.

      p. 1183 (amendments) May 21, 1937. (Page numbers refer to the House Journal for 1937. We don’t have this, but the law library does.)

Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, Vol. 35, p. 169.

Senate Resolution 250 of 1975-76 State Affairs Committee

Suggests that “Water Wonderland” become the state song.

RG 80-71, mf #1928.

State of the State

State of the State Addresses

Filed at the Library of Michigan

Library of Michigan (State Library)

LIBRARY-STATE

Source: 

1. MHC, V. 36 (1908), pp. 621.  Burton, C. M. “Biography of Oren Marsh, First State Librarian.”  Port.

1. Hayes, Louise C. MICHIGAN STATE LIBRARY, 1828-1928:  100 Hundred Years.  21 pp.  Including chronology.

State Building – First

State Building – First

GII

B497 1851

F9 ALS. Detroit, March 4, 1851

To Gov. John Barry from J. E. Schwarz

Requesting rental of triangular piece of land next to state building. Includes sketch of area bounded by W. Fort, Griswold, Campus Martius, and state building. This locates “Hose and Engine H.”

“National House,” State Building,” “Old Railroad depot, the property of the State leased to John LeDue.” …

SA Claims and GII Misc-Claims show that LaDue had some difficulty re old railroad depot land.

To: Edward Stimson, Nat’l Bank of Detroit, Det., 32

Health–Michigan Department of State

HEALTH – MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Source:

1. Michigan Historical Collections, Vol. 32, P 361-380. Kedzie, R. C. “Early History of the State Board of Health of Michigan.”

State Animal

Timber Wolf: Senate Bill 1416 of 1970

Black Bear: Senate Bill 1080 of 1971

Wolverine: Senate Bill 1108 of 1971

Timber Wolf: Senate Bill 943 of 1973

Elk: House Bill 5577 of 1975

Moose: House Bill 5578 of 1975

White-Tail: House Bill 6206 of 1976

White Tail: House Bill 4451 of 1977

Brittany SP: House Bill 6017 of 1980

Golden Retriever: House Bill 6128 of 1996

White-Tail Deer: Public Act 15 of 1997 State Game Mammal

St. Mary’s Ship Canal Company

ST. MARY’S SHIP CANAL COMPANY

GII

B 8, 18

 

Executive Office Papers, 1812-1910

 

GII

B46

 

Correspondence, reports, maps, and other material relating to building and operation of canal, 1840-1870. Report of Superintendent of canal 1857-1891.

 

B 46-War Department regarding building of Poe Locks, 1870-75.

St. Helena Island

St. Helena Island

Source:

1. Michigan History. Volume 10, pages 411-46. “Stories of Saint Helena Island” by Marion Morse Davis. Volume 16, pages 183-199. “About the Evergreen Island of Saint Helena” by Frances Margaret Fox. Volume 22, pages 296-7, “Michigan Islands” by William F. Lawler. See picture file for ruins of cooper shop.

1. Vertical File: Typescript of Before the Bridge. See cities. St. Ignace, pages 85-6.

See: Victor Lemmer, Gogebic Industrial Bureau, Suite 101, Rosemurgy Building, Ironwood.

Southern Border of Michigan

Research Boundaries – See Survey – Southern Boundaries

1. See Tracings and maps Michigan-Wisconsin boundary 1851-1910, B-1723.

2. See Streeter: #7382 (facsimilie of this in MSL vault). “Early Michigan History,” a pamphlet collection in two volumes contains above. 8027, 2028, 2025.

3. Sherman, C.E., Ohio Co-operative Topographical Survey, 1916. 1115 pp. See especially Volume 1 – contains bibliography.

4. Ind. Historical Society Collection – Volume 8 (Indiana)

5. Eirich, C. C. A study in historic geography; the establishing of the Ohio-Michigan boundary line: Journal Geography, v. 12, p.5-8, September 1913.

6. Gannett, Henry, Boundaries of the United States and of the several States and Territories with an outline of the history of all important changes of territory (1^st ed.): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 13, 1885 (135 p.); 2d. ed., Bulletin 171, 1900 (142 p.); 3d. ed., Bulletin 226, 1901. 145 p.

7. Settlement of the boundary dispute between Ohio and Michigan (note): Geographical Review, v. 3, p. 147, February 1917; Engineering News, v. 76, p. 1234-1235, December 28, 1916.

8. Series of articles and editorials concerning Michigan-Ohio boundary dispute; Wisconsin, though favoring Michigan’s position, did not relish the thought of losing the Upper Peninsula. – Wisconsin democrat (Green Bay), September 1, 1836-March 24, 1840 (Positive microfilm, State Historical Society of Wisconsin)

Federal Supreme Court Cases

270 U.S. 295; 70 Law Ed. 596; 42 Sup. Ct. 290 decided March 1, 1926 (concerns entire boundary)

272 U.S. 398; 71 Law Ed. 315; 47 Sup. Ct. 114 dated November 22, 1926 (contains decree based on the March 1926 opinion)

295 U.S. 455; 79 Law Ed. 1541; 55 Sup. Ct. 786, May 20, 1935 (concerns the Green Bay Section of the boundary)

297 U.S. 547; 80 Law Ed. 856; 56 Sup. Ct. 584, March 16, 1936 (fixes and establishes finally the boundary between Wisconsin and Michigan)

Soo Canal

SOO CANAL

Dissertation: John N. Dickerson. “The Canal at Sault St. Marie: Inception, Operation, and the Canal Grant Lands.” PhD, Wisconsin, 1968 #231.

Records of Executive Office 1810-1910: Box 61, Sault Canal Superintendent, Box 262-263 Records relating to the Sault Canal. Applications, 1855-1881; Correspondence and Reports, 1837-1909; Printed Reports. Box 137, Sault Canal Semi-Centennial, 1905.

Treasury Department: Lot 7, Box 62, St. Mary’s Ship Canal, 1852-1860.

See: Maps, photos