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2024 Milestone Celebrations

Dianna Stampfler , , , ,

Michigan was founded on January 26, 1837, as the 26th state of the United States of America—making this year its 187th Birthday / Anniversary (depending on how you look at it).

Many noted Michigan businesses, attractions, events and communities (including Promote Michigan, founded in 2004) are also celebrating milestone years this year…here’s a list (please feel free to share others we may have missed).

390 Years (1634)

  • Jean Nicolet, guided by the Wyandot, passed through the Straits of Mackinac and followed the southern shoreline of the Upper Peninsula, en route to find the Ho-Chunk and the imagined passage to the Pacific.

 345 Years (1679)

  • René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sailed Le Griffon to St. Ignace and on to an island at the inlet of Green Bay, departed from there with 14 men via canoe south on Lake Michigan, and established Fort Miami.

 340 Years (1684)

  • The mission of St. Joseph was established in Niles by Claude-Jean Allouez.

 205 Years (1819)

 In the Treaty of Saginaw, the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomiceded more than six million acres in the central portion of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to the United States.

 195 Years (1829)

185 Years (1839)

180 Years (1844)

175 Years (1849)

 180 Years (1854)

 165 Years (1859)

155 Years (1869)

 150 Years (1874)

145 Years (1879)

135 Years (1889)

 130 Years (1894)

 125 Years (1899)

120 Years (1904)

115 Years (1909)

110 Years (1914)

105 Years (1919)

100 Years (1924)

95 Years (1929)

90 Years (1934)

85 Years (1939)

75 Years (1949)

 65 Years (1959)

 60 Years (1964)

 Bald Mountain Recreation Area Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex & Contac Station, Lake Orion

55 Years (1969)

 50 Years (1974)

45 Years (1979)

 40 Years (1984)

 35 Years (1989)

30 Years (1994)

 25 Years (1999)

20 Years (2004)

15 Years (2009)

 10 Years (2014)

 

SOURCE: Promote Michigan (est. 2004)

 

Updated December 2023