An explorer called Jean Nicolet claimed Lake Michigan for France in 1634 but the first true French settlers were called ‘Les Couriers du Bois’ – ‘runners in the woods’. They served Louis XIV and raided the Great Lakes for gold and minerals.
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Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States for just four years between 1861 and 1865, yet he left a profound legacy.
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Dearborn is the city built by Henry Ford – engineer, car manufacturer, and clairvoyant of the interstate highway. It’s where, back in 1903, he created the first mass-produced car: the Ford Model T; today it’s the world’s headquarters of the Ford Motor Company.
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The one thing you notice about New England towns and place names is that they are somehow very familiar. Many of the places are named from the original towns, villages and hamlets and counties from old England, some from France and others left over from the Native American names.
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The Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield is located on a 1,200 acre site in the scenic Berkshire Hills, western Massachusetts. Here on the third of 19 sites established in the 18th century, the original life of the Shaker, America’s most successful communitarian society is still preserved as a museum village.
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