Tourist Council

TOURIST COUNCIL

Philosophy apparent, 1917.

Appropriation for Advertising Michigan, 1925.

Tourist Council created, 1945.

            See printed proceedings of Public Domain Commission in Library.

 

Partial list of primary sources:

 

Records of Department of Administration – Budget work papers regarding Conservation, Recreation, Agriculture, etc.  RG 63-23. 

Records of Department of Administration – Selected correspondence of Controller. 

 

                        Record Group                        Box/File

 

                        RG 60-21                        B6, F14

                        RG 60-21                        B31, F23

                        RG 62-36                        B6, F20

                        RG 62-1                        B7, F19

                        RG 62-8                        B8, F10a, B17, F37

                        RG 63-40                        B7, F23

                        RG 64-33                        B9, F15

Records of the Auditor General:  RG 61-18, 63-49, 64-46, 62-35. 

Records of Executive Office:  Kelley, 17, 45, 55; Sigler, 28, 73, 52; and 1925, B91, F6.  See guides. 

Film copy of scrapbook regarding Upper Peninsula Development Bureau.

Administrative Board minutes not indexed.

Toledo Strip–Area

TOLEDO STRIP – AREA 

Source:  Attorney General’s Office, February 1972

“…the exact measurement as calculated by an engineer in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources on February 9, 1972, is 575.75 square miles from Longitude N 86 degrees 32         32 s east to 43 degrees 37    7     north, plus Maumee Bay being 13.75 square miles by using the dash line indicating the boundary claimed by Michigan and Ohio from the Indiana border to Cedar Point, Ohio.”

Edward Tiffin

EDWARD TIFFIN 

Commissioner of General Land Office, 1812-1814; Surveyor-General for the Northwest, 1814-1829. 

Tiffin papers in Ohio Historical Society, 1813 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210 include:

1. Microfilm of copies of correspondence of the Surveyor General, 1796-1824, from originals in National Archives (2 reels, 36 feet). 

1. U.S. General land Office Papers, Steubenville and Zanesville, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., 1800-1851 (six boxes).

1. Ohio land office records loaned by State Auditor’s Office (2 boxes), containing 1815 Tiffin-Meigs correspondence, and 1821 Tiffin-Brown letter. 

1. Samuel Williams Papers and Autobiography, (Williams was Tiffin’s chief clerk during the entire period).  Tiffin items are to be found in Volume I and in Boxes III and XIV.

Thomas Worthington papers may contain pertinent material among Tiffin’s letters to Worthington, 1793-1828.

Thom Paintings

1. The Americans take over Fort Mackinac
2. Before History, 10,000 B.C.
3. The Boy Governor
4. Mme. Cadillac arrives in Detroit
5. The Capital moves to Lansing
6. The Detroit Fire
7. Detroit – World Port
8. Furs – Trappers – Traders
9. Charles Harvey Builds the Locks
10. Douglass Houghton finds Copper
11. Jolliet and Marquette
12. Sieur de La Salle and the “Griffon”
13. Lewis Cass Expedition
14. The Iron Horse
15. Massacre at Michilimackinac
16. Michigan Fever
17. Michigan in the Civil War
18. Michigan Indians
19. The One-Room Schoolhouse
20. The Pageant of the Sault
21. Perry Transfers to the “Niagra”
22. Putting the World on Wheels
23. Riches Underground
24. When Pine was King

Territorial Road–Original Route

RESEARCH – ROADS – TERRITORIAL ROAD – ORIGINAL ROUTE

Sources:

1. Buley, Carlyle. The Old Northwest Volume II, page 83.

1. Fuller, George N. Centennial History of Michigan, Volume 1, page 156-159. Volume II, page 78-9.

1. Michigan History Magazine, Volume 19, page 179-214, 330.

1. Utley. Michigan as a Province, territory and State, Volume II, page 265.

1. Michigan Historical Collections: Index

1. Ann Arbor Register. July 23, 1873.

See correspondence: Sandra Lang, May 19, 1955

Michigan Territorial Government

GOVERNMENT – TERRITORIAL 1820

 

Detroit Gazette                                                                                                           LYCEUM.

March 2, 1821.

            A MEETING of the Lyceum of the City of Detroit, will be held at 6 o’clock, on Tuesday evening next, at the Council House.  The following question is selected for discussion on that evening:  —  Is it expedient that there should be any alterations in the provisions of the Ordinance of Congress, of 1787, in its application to the government of this Territory?”   —   An election of officers, agreeably to the constitution, will take place, and a general and punctual attendance of the members is requested.

 

            Detroit, March 1, 1821. 

  GII                  1836

B457

F1

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Printed protest No. 1, First Session, Detroit, 1836.  John Barry and others refused to legislate or carry on government business. 

In Corres. With Legislative Members, Senators, 1836-51.

Telegraph

TELEGRAPH 

GII

B458

F2

 

January 8, 1849 

Letter to Governor Ransom from J. J. Spud ?, Jr., Detroit.

RE:  Installation of telegraph from Jackson to the Capitol.  “P/S.  Line can be built and put in operation in thirty days.”

Survey-Southern Boundary

SURVEY – SOUTHERN BOUNDARY 

1. MHC – Cass Letter Book pages 48, 65, 67, 106-7, 145-7, 159, 168. 

1. Cons-Lands.  “Plat of state line between Ohio and Territory of Michigan surveyed conformably with the provisions of the Act of the Congress of the United States, 20^th May, 1812, Authorizing the President of the United States to ascertain and designate certain boundaries.”  Surveyed October 2, 1818.  Scale two miles to one inch.

See:  Memorial to Senate and H of R, January 9, 1818

James J. Strang

James J. Strang

RG 97-145 – Photographs

RG 72-136 – Mackinac County Circuit Court

Box 8, F 1,2,8,11

General Photograph Collection

State Symbols

STATE SYMBOLS

State Gem – Chlorastrolite (commonly known as greenstone) 1972 P.A. 56

Adopted by H. B. No. 4366, regular session, 1972. Bill introduced by Representative Hellman.

State Bird – Robin Redbreast – Adopted 1931 – House Concurrent Resolution

State Tree – White Pine – Adopted 1955 – 1955 P.A. 7

State Flower – Apple Blossom – Adopted 1897 – Joint Resolution

State Fish – Trout – Adopted 1965 – 1965 P.A. 58

State Stone – Petoskey Stone – Adopted 1965 – 1965 P.A. 89

Great Seal and Coat of Arms – Adopted 1911 – (present design)