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Michigan Statehood Day

Name: Michigan Statehood Day
Start: 2026-01-26T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-26
Location: US Holidays

Michigan Statehood Day is held on January 26. 1837. This event in the third decade of the month January is annual.

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Detroit is known as the car capital of the world. Alpena is the home of the world's largest cement plant. Rogers City boasts the world's largest limestone quarry. Elsie is the home of the world's largest registered Holstein dairy herd. Cars are not allowed on Michigan's Mackinac Island. Traverse City is home to nearly 40 wineries.

Michigan is the only state that touches four of the five Great Lakes. As such, it's home to the longest freshwater coastline of any U.S. state, *and* the second-longest coastline, period (coming in behind Alaska). Anywhere you stand in the state, you're no more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.

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