Lower Peninsula, manuscript map of, ca. 1840.

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Lower Peninsula, manuscript map of, ca. 1840.

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Series 5, folder 9 of record group 71-12 consists of a manuscript map (ca. 1840) of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, showing roads, trails, geological areas, forest cover, and soil.

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The Michigan Geological Survey was created by Public Act 20 of 1837. Its purpose was to conduct a geological and mineralogical survey of the state. The state legislature appointed Douglass Houghton the first state geologist (1837). In 1921, the state legislature established the Department of Conservation, and the Michigan Geological Survey became part of that department (Public Act 17 of 1921). The Department of Conservation established the Geological Survey Division circa 1947. In 1968, the dep...