…the name Michigan is probably from the Ojibwa word michigami meaning “great water.”
...the Great Lakes are relatively young, geologically speaking, around 10,000 years old.
...the state fossil of Michigan -- the petoskey stone (in photo below) -- is a fossilized coral that thrived much earlier. They populated the inland sea that covered much of this region in the Devonian Period over 350 million years ago.
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