History

• How Lansing became the state capital

  From the first capital in Detroit, to the choice of a permanent capital in 1847, to a town called Michigan, learn how Lansing became the state capital in a fun and entertaining fashion.

• Portraits of Michigan - History and Facts on Michigan
• The Mitten

  Topics from Michigan's past include:

  • African Americans in the Civil War,
  • Bottle Bill, French Explorers,
  • Hopewell Indians,
  • Michigan at 200,
  • Pioneer Life,
  • War of 1812
  • and more!