Subject: michigan<br/>
Date: Nov 05, 2002 @ 00:29<br/>
Author: b.whyte@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au (b.whyte@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1010011044">Re Michigan&#39;s upper peninsula:<br/>
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1805, Michigan was defined as territory east of a line down the centre of Lake Michigan from the southern to the northernmostp oints on the lake. From the southern end, a line was drawn east until it hit Lake Erie (chopping off the Michigan Peninsula from Indiana). From the northern end, a line was drawn due north until it hit the northern boundary of the US. This line therefor cut the eastern end off what is today the upper Michigan peninsula.<br/>
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In 1816, Indiana&#39;s northern boundary was defined as a parallel runing east-west 10 miles North of the southern end of Lake Michigan. <br/>
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In 1818 Michigan gained partso Indian and Illinois, which included all of present day Wisconsin, and half of Minnesota. <br/>
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In 1834 Michigan gained Iowa, the rest of Minnesota, 2/3 of N.Dakota and 1/3 of S.Dakota.<br/>
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In 1836 Michigan lost all of this to wisconsin Territory, shrinking back to today&#39;s boundary.<br/>
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When Wisconsin was organised, it was supposed a cvontinuous water boundary existed between Michigan and Wisconsin on the upper peninsula, fomr Green Bay ot Lake superior.  When it was surveyed in 1838, it was discovered it did not exist as the head of the Montral River (which is the boundary running south fomr Lake superior) was 50 miles from Lake of the Desert/Lac Vieux Desert, which was supposed to be its source. The boundary was redefined in the wisconsin enabling acto f 1846, and in greater detail in the Michigan constitution of 1850.<br/>
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summary from Van Zandt, 1966, &quot;Boundaries of the United States and the several states...&quot;, USGS, pp127-8 and map.<br/>
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