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When I did New Jersey I know I made these two seperate blog posts but to save time, I decided to just combine them.

Michigan’s State Symbols

State Bird: robin

State Fish: brook trout (what a coincidence, just like New Jersey!)

State Flower: apple blossom

State Tree: eastern white pine

State Motto: If you seek a peninsula, look about you

State’s General Population: 10,120,860

Michigan Facts (Both Fun and Normal)

You just learned Michigan’s state motto, which is If you seek a peninsula, look about you. If you are wondering what a peninsula is; it’s land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides. Michigan is actually split up into TWO peninsulas, because of the four great lakes that surround it.

The great lakes are Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and of course, Lake Michigan. They are what keeps Michigan from being an ordinary, fully connected piece of land.

Michigan’s capitol is Lansing but their biggest city would be Detroit. And speaking of Detroit, Michigan, you might want to know that one of Dalton’s librarians, by the name of Joe Quain, is FROM Detroit, Michigan. Most people at Dalton know him.

Battle Creek, Michigan is somtimes called ‘Cereal City’ because it homes the Kellog cereal brand. If you eat Kellog cereal, this is probably an interesting thing to know.

Sometimes people call Michigan the Wolverine State, but it’s believed that there are NO wild wolverines in Michigan. It’s a strange nickname, if you ask me.