  Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 1432 Registered: 08-2006 |
Can you name all the flags that have flown over Michigan in it's diverse history? Not counting the state flag. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 4625 Registered: 10-2003 |
In order: France, US, Britain, US | ||
Tkelly1986 Member Username: Tkelly1986 Post Number: 389 Registered: 01-2004 |
Spain controled the fort in Niles, Michigan for a period of time. That is why the city is known as "The City of Four Flags" | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 1434 Registered: 08-2006 |
Yes! French 1622-1783 British 1760-1786 Spanish 1781 A spanish expedition briefly held St. Joseph at Niles in 1781 US Since 1783 stylin is correct about the time of the War of 1812 I think the Brits recaptured Fort Ponchetrain. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 9826 Registered: 12-2003 |
Y'all forgot the Starbuck's flag. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5049 Registered: 08-2004 |
Does that mean we can never have a Six Flags Amusement Park??  | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1757 Registered: 01-2005 |
Michigan's license plate for the Bicentennial used from 1976 to 1978 had four stars on the left side of the plate to signify the four flags it flew under. Little trivia for you young'uns.  | ||
Homer Member Username: Homer Post Number: 213 Registered: 08-2004 |
Beaver Island was declared a Kingdom in the 1800's. Expect they had a flag, or at least a Beaver skin on a stick. | ||
Novine Member Username: Novine Post Number: 27 Registered: 07-2007 |
I wonder if they flew a flag here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B eaver_Island_(Lake_Michigan)#The_Mormon_kin gdom_on_Beaver_Island | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 235 Registered: 03-2007 |
Beaver Island was declared a kingdom by Mitt Romney's ancestors. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 144 Registered: 07-2006 |
Go Blue held parties on Beaver Island under the Pabst Blue Ribbon flag.....while attending WMU and studying anatomy.... | ||
Russix Member Username: Russix Post Number: 35 Registered: 11-2006 |
www.detroithistorical.org | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 236 Registered: 03-2007 |
ES: Never touched Pabst Blue Ribbon...it was strictly Stroh's!! I see that you have survived the gathering of hooligans. | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 1117 Registered: 11-2003 |
The final outpost of the British in Michigan was Drummond Island, from 1815 to 1828. | ||
Crash67 Member Username: Crash67 Post Number: 29 Registered: 05-2007 |
The U.S. flag didn't fly over Detroit until July 11, 1796. The British refused to let go of the city due to its strategic location along the Detroit River, even though the rest of Michigan was part of the Northwest Territory. |
