Michigan Territory

GPTKB entity

Properties (56)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf territory
gptkbp:area 96,716 square miles
gptkbp:borders gptkb:Lake_Huron
gptkb:Lake_Michigan
gptkb:Indiana
gptkb:Ohio
gptkb:Wisconsin_Territory
gptkbp:capital gptkb:Detroit
gptkbp:dissolved 1837
gptkbp:established 1805
gptkbp:firstAppearance gptkb:Detroit
gptkbp:firstHeld New_Englanders
gptkbp:foundedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:geographicalFeature gptkb:Great_Lakes
gptkbp:governmentType territorial government
gptkbp:governs gptkb:William_Hull
gptkbp:hasCapital gptkb:Detroit
gptkbp:historicalEvent gptkb:Michigan_Territory's_first_women's_rights_convention
gptkb:Michigan_Territory's_first_church
gptkb:Michigan_Territory's_first_hospital
gptkb:Michigan_Territory's_first_bank
gptkb:Michigan_Territory's_first_university
gptkb:Michigan_Territory's_first_railroad
gptkb:Michigan_Territory's_first_constitution
Michigan_Territory's_establishment_of_land_grants
Michigan_Territory's_first_agricultural_college
Michigan_Territory's_first_agricultural_fair
Michigan_Territory's_first_census
Michigan_Territory's_first_fire_department
Michigan_Territory's_first_labor_union.
Michigan_Territory's_first_land_survey
Michigan_Territory's_first_law_enforcement_agency
Michigan_Territory's_first_legislative_assembly
Michigan_Territory's_first_library
Michigan_Territory's_first_militia
Michigan_Territory's_first_newspaper
Michigan_Territory's_first_postal_service
Michigan_Territory's_first_public_school
Michigan_Territory's_first_public_works_project
Michigan_Territory's_first_road_construction
Michigan_Territory's_first_school_district
Michigan_Territory's_first_state_fair
Michigan_Territory's_role_in_the_fur_trade
Michigan_Territory's_involvement_in_the_1836_presidential_election
Michigan_Territory's_role_in_the_American_Civil_War
Michigan_Territory's_involvement_in_the_Underground_Railroad
gptkbp:historicalSignificance site_of_the_War_of_1812
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Michigan Territory
gptkbp:language English
French
gptkbp:nativeTo gptkb:Odawa
Ojibwe
Potawatomi
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:population approximately 200,000 (1830)
gptkbp:state became a state in 1837