Michigan

State: Michigan

Lat/Long: 44.0000, -85.0000

Created from the Michigan Territory on January 26, 1837, Michigan was a free state and remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War. Its original capital was Detroit before moving to Lansing in 1847.

"An Act to Establish the Northern Boundary Line of the State of Ohio, and to Provide for the Admission of the State of Michigan into the Union Upon the Conditions Therein Expressed," 15 June 1836, Statutes at Large of the United States 5 (1856):49-50; "An Act Supplementary to the Act Entitled 'An Act to Establish the Northern Boundary Line of the State of Ohio, and to Provide for the Admission of the State of Michigan into the Union Upon the Conditions Therein Expressed,'" 23 June 1836, Statutes at Large of the United States 5 (1856):59-60; "An Act to Admit the State of Michigan into the Union, Upon an Equal Footing with the Original States," 26 January 1837, Statutes at Large of the United States 5 (1856):144; Willis F. Dunbar and George S. May, Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State 3rd rev. ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1995), 239.