The Lower Peninsula of Michigan, also known as Lower Michigan, is the larger, southern and less-elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan. It is separated from the U
Detroit Skyline August 2024
Michigan State Capitol, Capitol Avenue, Lansing, MI 54383521860
Michigan is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and
Lower Peninsula of Michigan
…Peninsula of Michigan, also known as Lower Michigan, is the larger, southern and less-elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan. It is separated from the Upper Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. The Lower Peninsula is surrounded by water on all sides except its southern border…
Père Marquette and the Indians (1869), by Wilhelm Lamprecht
Fort Michilimackinac at the Straits of Mackinac
Treaty of Paris, by Benjamin West (1783), an unfinished painting of the American diplomatic negotiators of the Treaty of Paris which brought official conclusion to the Revolutionary War and gave possession of Michigan and other territory to the new United States
Sailors of the Michigan Naval Militia standing at attention during a parade in the 1920s, following World War I