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French Voyageurs of the Great Lakes

Pilot Guides History, midwest USA

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’s Springfield

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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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Henry Ford’s Dearborn

Pilot Guides History, midwest USA

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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Living the Amish Way in Ohio

Pilot Guides Culture, midwest USA

Wayne and Holmes counties in Ohio have the United States’ densest concentration of Amish.  The Amish are a group of dissenting Christians who grew out of the Anabaptist movement of Germany and Switzerland.

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Lewis & Clark’s Native American Trail

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In 1803, two young army officers set off west at the behest of President Jefferson to explore the newly acquired territory of Louisiana & find a practical transportation link between this region & the ‘Oregon Country’ territory claimed by the US following the discovery of the mouth of the Columbia River in 1792.

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