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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Why Is the U.P. Part of Michigan?
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:02
	Publish Date:		2019-03-20 05:00:00
	Description:		Have you ever wondered how the Upper Peninsula of Michigan came to be… why it's a part of Michigan, and not Wisconsin? Gary Entz has the story for this week's A Northwoods Moment in History . The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is part of the same Great Lakes ecosystem that reigns over Wisconsin’s Northwoods, and a glance at any map is enough to see that the UP really is a land extension of Wisconsin. In contrast, there is a water boundary between the UP and Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and at no point do the two parts of the state meet. So this begs the question: why is the UP part of Michigan instead of Wisconsin’s Northwoods? As it turns out the answer to this question takes us back to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. In that piece of legislation, Congress declared that the border between the Ohio and Michigan Territories was to be “an east-west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.” To establish this line, Congress used what is known as the Mitchell Map. The
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