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The Thumb is a region and a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten. The Thumb area is generally considered to be in the Central Michigan
Turnip Rock Pointe Aux Barques, Michigan
Lexington Harbor, Lake Huron, Lexington, Michigan
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Wind turbines in Tuscola County Michigan
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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
The Thumb
…The Thumb is a region and a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten. The Thumb area is generally considered to be in the Central Michigan region, east of the…
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