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Michigan is unique among the states because it consists of two peninsulas completely separated by water. Between Lakes Michigan and Huron lie the Straits of Mackinac, which separate Michigan’s two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula is bounded on the east by Lakes Huron, Saint Clair, and Erie and by the Detroit and Saint Clair rivers, all of which separate the state from the Canadian province of Ontario. This peninsula is bounded on the south by Ohio and Indiana, on the west by Lake Michigan, and on the north by Lakes Michigan and Huron and by the Straits of Mackinac. The Upper Peninsula is bordered on the east by the Saint Marys River, on the south by the Straits of Mackinac and Lakes Huron and Michigan, on the west by Wisconsin, and on the north by Lake Superior.

While Michigan ranks first among the states in production of motor vehicles and parts, it is also a leader in many other manufacturing and processing lines, including prepared cereals, machine tools, airplane parts, refrigerators, hardware, and furniture. With 10,083 inland lakes and 3,288 mi of Great Lakes shoreline, Michigan is a prime area for recreation and tourism. A 2006 real estate survey has estimated the population of Michigan at 10,071,822.

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Algonac

Jody Fournier

E-mail: jfourn3353@aol.com

Ann Arbor click here

Ann Arbor is located in southeastern Michigan on the Huron River. Located in a farming area, Ann Arbor is a major educational and medical center. A 2000 real estate survey has estimated the population of Ann Arbor, Michigan at 114,000.

Bay City

The Diamond Team of RE/MAX Results

E-mail: thediamondteam@chartermi.net

Big Rapids

Randy Ostrander
Exit Northern Exposure Realty
Phone: 231-250-9802

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Full time Realtor serving Big Rapids, Reed City, Baldwin, Morley, Evart, Cadillac and all of West Central Michigan.

Brighton

Paul M. Ahern

E-mail: pmahern@att.net

Canton

Brion Perry

E-mail: brion.perry@att.net

Dearborn

Steve Hatfield, Realtor

E-mail: steve@steve-hatfield.com

Detroit click here

Detroit is located on the Detroit and Rouge rivers, opposite Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The city is situated at the narrowest point of the channel connecting the upper and lower regions of the vast Great Lakes water system. This strategic location greatly aided the city’s economic growth, as it became a major port of the Great Lakes industrial basin.

Dewitt

Bob & Betty Ann Crepeau, Realtors

E-mail: bobet49@attbi.com

Farmington Hills

Bruce Simon, ABR

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Flint

Randy Haney

E-mail: Rhaney@AARealtors.net

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Glen Arbor

Allan Reed

E-mail: areed@northlink.net

Grand Blanc

Cary Beach

Grand Rapids click here

Grand Rapids is a leading commercial, transportation, and manufacturing hub of western Michigan that first achieved fame for the production of furniture. Manufactures today include office furniture, automotive parts, footwear and leather products, machinery, hardware, home care products, tools, plastics, printed materials, home appliances, and processed foods.

Hancock

Rodwell P. Reed - Associate Broker

E-mail: rrddyy@yahoo.com

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Harrisville

Ken Saksewski

Holland

Andrea Crossman

Houghton

Rodwell P. Reed - Associate Broker

E-mail: rrddyy@yahoo.com

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Lake Michigan

Andrea Crossman

Lake Michigan Real Estate

Lake Orion

Krista Spicuzza

E-mail: szyqy2k@aol.com

Lexington

Cherie Darmis

E-mail: cheriedarmis@hotmail.com

Livonia

Diane Dell

Mason

Carl Willits

E-mail: c21willits@worldnet.att.net

Northville

Bob Allwine & Bev Gilbert-Allwine

E-mail: bobnbev@realtor.com

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Novi

Bob Allwine & Bev Gilbert-Allwine

E-mail: bobnbev@realtor.com

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Rockford click here

Rockford is located in Kent County, just north of Grand Rapids between Muskegon and Belding, on the banks of the Rogue River. It is part of the Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland metro area.

St. Clair

Dan Gizar

E-mail: dgizar@coldwellbanker.com

St. John's

Bob & Betty Ann Crepeau, Realtors

E-mail: bobet49@attbi.com

Saline

Nancy Chenevey

Saline Real Estate

Sault Ste. Marie

Roger J Roe, CRB, CRS, GRI

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Swartz Creek

Randy Haney

E-mail: Rhaney@AARealtors.net

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Traverse City click here

Traverse City is located in the northwestern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, 124 mi north of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is primarily a resort and a cherry-shipping center.

West Bloomfield click here

West Bloomfield is located in Oakland County. Surrounding cities include Orchard Lake Village, Keego Harbor, and Sylvan Lake. It is part of the Detroit metropolitan area.

More about Michigan

The principal crops grown in Michigan in the late 1990s were corn, soybeans, vegetables, sugarbeets, wheat, and fruit. Sales of greenhouse and nursery products are the other leading source of crop income, producing cash sales roughly equal to those of corn. The state leads the nation in the production of cucumbers, and is behind only North Dakota in the amount of dry beans grown. Other important vegetable crops are celery, asparagus, snap beans, carrots, cauliflower, potatoes, tomatoes, and onions. In fruits Michigan is especially outstanding. The state is first in the nation in the production of sour cherries; it is also a leading producer of sweet cherries, apples, grapes, peaches, plums, and strawberries.

Employing only a few hundred workers, commercial fishing is still recovering from the invasion of the sea lamprey, an eellike fish that nearly wiped out the multimillion-dollar Great Lakes fishing industry. First appearing in Lake Huron in the late 1930s, the parasite had spread to Lake Superior by the early 1950s. After testing thousands of chemicals, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service found a poison that eliminates the lamprey without affecting other fish. The catch consists mostly of whitefish, salmon, lake trout, chub, yellow perch, catfish, and carp. Sport fishing is now more important than commercial fishing on most of the Great Lakes.

Lumbering in Michigan is not of major importance economically, although it does service thriving paper and furniture-manufacturing industries. It concentrates on secondary growth, and pulp and plywood predominate among wood products. More than half the timber for pulp comes from the Upper Peninsula. Spruces and hemlocks are the major species cut for pulp. The western part of the Upper Peninsula also furnishes most of the hardwoods used in the veneer and furniture industries. The area around Escanaba on the Upper Peninsula is the source of most of the bird’s-eye maple in the world.

Michigan’s mineral resources are varied. They include cement, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, salt, and gypsum. The state’s production of iron ore is second in the nation, behind only that of Minnesota. Michigan is the leading state in the production of magnesium compounds and the second leading state, behind Florida, in the production of peat, which is marketed for fertilizer, not for fuel. Among the stones that are extracted are limestone and such gemstones as thomsonite, greenstone, datolite, agate, and a fossil coral called Petoskey stone. By the mid-1970s nonmetals, including construction materials and saline minerals, had become more important than metals in the state’s mineral output. Mineral fuels also became much more significant in the 1970s.

A large oil and natural gas field was discovered in 1969 in the northern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. In 1999 production amounted to 8 million barrels of crude petroleum and 277 billion cu ft of natural gas. While production of natural gas was increasing, the amount of oil being pumped was substantially less than in the mid-1980s.

Limestone is the most abundant and valuable of the stones mined in Michigan. It is used primarily as a flux in the steelmaking process and in the chemical and construction industries. Major deposits are found along the northwestern and northeastern shores of the Lower Peninsula. The manufacture of portland cement is based on native limestone and is one of the state’s leading mineral products. Lime, which has a number of industrial uses, is produced primarily in Wayne County. The Lower Peninsula, with abundant supplies of sand and gravel, provides the state with basic materials for its construction industry. Gypsum, used locally in the manufacture of wallboard, exterior sheathing, lath, and plaster, is mined in the Grand Rapids area and quarried at Alabaster.

The state is a leading salt producer. Salt is mined in the Detroit area, where there are vast underground deposits. It is also obtained from brines in the central Michigan area around Midland, Saginaw, Bay City, and Whitehall. Natural salines, including bromine, calcium chloride, calcium-magnesium chloride, other magnesium compounds, and potash, are also extracted from brines in the Lower Peninsula.

Although Michigan has a diversified economy, it stands out as an industrial state, ranking fifth in the United States in value added by manufacturing in 1996. Transportation equipment, industrial machines of many kinds, electronic devices, and metal processing dominate the state’s manufacturing. Michigan leads the nation in automobile production. Other important manufactures include plastics, pharmaceuticals, soaps and cleansers, milled grain, dry cereals, agricultural machinery, office furniture, dairy products, preserved fruits and vegetables, printed matter, electrical equipment, construction materials, and measuring and control devices.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Michigan’s automobile industry was devastated by national economic recessions and competition from foreign manufacturers. Foreign cars that were smaller, more fuel-efficient, and more reliable than U.S. cars captured a big share of the U.S. market while economic recessions also reduced sales. Massive layoffs in the U.S. automobile industry soon resulted. But by the mid-1980s the industry had partly recovered, primarily through sales of trucks and of luxury automobiles. The recovery was complete by the 1990s, although increased automation and the opening of production plants elsewhere in the country left the industry permanently changed.

The manufacture of motor vehicles is centered largely in Detroit, Dearborn, Flint, and Pontiac. Much of the income generated by manufacturing in the state originates in Wayne, Macomb, Oakland, Monroe, Lapeer, and Saint Clair counties, which the U.S. census calls the Detroit primary metropolitan statistical area. The Detroit area is the home of the so-called Big Three automotive manufacturers—General Motors Corporation has headquarters in Detroit, Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, and Chrysler Corporation in Auburn Hills. Best known of the Detroit area industrial establishments is Ford’s River Rouge plant in Dearborn. The plant is virtually a manufacturing city, with more than 160 km (100 mi) of railroad track within the industrial complex. Body and automobile parts manufacturers are spread throughout the Greater Detroit area in such places as Hamtramck, Warren, Sterling Heights, Wayne, Southfield, and Troy. Farm machinery, machine tools, and chemicals based largely on salt are also important products in the Detroit area. Other significant industries are steelmaking, food processing, petroleum refining, and printing and publishing.

Among the other leading manufacturing centers is Flint, which has been virtually a one-industry city because of its dependence on automotive production. The majority of its manufacturing workers are employed by General Motors. Automobile parts are also part of Grand Rapids’s manufacturing structure, although that city manufactures a considerable amount of furniture. Grand Rapids has lost a great deal of the low-cost furniture market and now is stressing its skill in manufacturing quality furniture. Lansing, another important automotive center, has developed research facilities and industry related to science, technology, and agriculture. Saginaw, in addition to manufacturing automobiles, produces foundry work and machines and is a food processor. Muskegon also specializes in foundry work and has become a manufacturer of sporting-goods products, namely billiard tables and bowling equipment. Paper manufacturing is especially important to Kalamazoo as are pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Limestone quarrying and shipping are major activities in the Alpena region. The city is a center for portland cement and concrete production and has wood product processing and metals industries. Bay City, home to a major Great Lakes port that distributes regional agricultural and industrial products, has a variety of industries, including shipbuilding. Smaller cities with manufacturing specializations include chemicals in Midland, cereals in Battle Creek, baby food in Fremont, furniture and other wood products in Holland, petroleum headquarters in Mount Pleasant, household appliances in Benton Harbor, and automobile, electronic, and aircraft parts in Jackson.

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