U.P. Question for Mick

[NWRef]

The U.P. is connected by land to WI but separated by water from MI. Why is the U.P. a part of MI and not WI ?

[Jurassic Referee]

Michigan lost the toss!


Couldn't help it, mick.

[oatmealqueen]

Originally posted by NWRef
The U.P. is connected by land to WI but separated by water from MI. Why is the U.P. a part of MI and not WI ?

It was Paul B's and Babe the Blue Ox's fault. Right mick?

[mick]

Originally posted by NWRef
The U.P. is connected by land to WI but separated by water from MI. Why is the U.P. a part of MI and not WI ?

NWRef,
Both Indiana and Ohio owned us at first. Then Indiana gave up, too cold.
Then Ohio owned us, but they swapped about 480 square mile for us cuz it was too cold.


See the Toledo Strip war below.
http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/toledo_war.html

Now we have a continuing feud between backers of the Packers and Lions.

mick

[NWRef]

Good Job !!!! The internet is a wonderful thing...... The real answer is a lot less funny than JR's

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by NWRef
Good Job !!!! The internet is a wonderful thing...... The real answer is a lot less funny than JR's

psssssst....JR thinks that IS the answer.....

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by Dan_ref

psssssst....JR thinks that IS the answer.....

Hmmmmmm!

Lose some weight,forget to shave for a few days.......

Yup, that could actually be JR.

[SamIAm]

Non-Basketball but here it is -

The move toward statehood was slowed by the desire of Ohio and Indiana to absorb parts of present S Michigan, and by the opposition of southern states to the admission of another free state. The Michigan electorate organized a government without U.S. sanction and in 1836 operated as a state, although outside the Union. To resolve the boundary dispute Congress proposed that the Toledo strip be ceded to Ohio and Indiana with compensation to Michigan of land in the Upper Peninsula. Though the Michigan electorate rejected the offer, a group of Democratic leaders accepted it, and by their acceptance Michigan became the 26th state on January 26, 1937. (The admission of Arkansas as a slaveholding state offset that of Michigan as a free state.)

Source -> http://www.statehousegirls.net/mi/history/

[RookieDude]

....Michigan became the 26th state on January 26, 1937

Hmmmmm, Michigan became a state during the great depression?

RD

[oc]

Originally posted by mick

NWRef,
Both Indiana and Ohio owned us at first. Then Indiana gave up, too cold.
Then Ohio owned us, but they swapped about 480 square mile for us cuz it was too cold.


See the Toledo Strip war below.
http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/toledo_war.html

Now we have a continuing feud between backers of the Packers and Lions.

mick

That and I don't think WI existed yet when the U.P. become part of MI.

[SamIAm]

Non-Basketball but -
Rookie Dude,

1937 does sound a bit odd. I think the 1937 reference was a mis-print in my post above, it should have been 1837.

I'll alert the statehousegirls.

On May 29, 1848, Wisconsin was admitted to the Union as the 30th state.