Why Ohio and Michigan Both Claimed Toledo

Why Michigan Traded Toledo for the Upper Peninsula Coming up: why Veterans Day falls on Nov 11, then America's longest river. Chapters 00:00 Hook 00:37 The Wrong Line on the Map 04:23 The Lake Around the Prize 07:26 The Rock Nobody Wanted 10:40 The Staircase for Ships 13:19 Five Miles Between Peninsulas 16:05 The Island Closer to Canada 18:36 Thirty Feet of Snow 20:32 The Prize, Measured 22:43 Ending Sources and full image, video and music credits: https://theshortrecord.pages.dev/sources/w... Images and video (public domain or CC0) from: Alan Wilcox; Ambler, Henry Lovejoy, 1843-1924; Anthony Finley; Asher196 at English Wikipedia; Bain News Service, publisher; Belissarius; Columbus Metropolitan Library, via the Digital Public Library of America; Detroit Publishing Co; DVIDS (U.S. Department of Defense); Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center; Fenner, Sears & Co, Hinton, Isaac Taylor, 1799-1847, Simpkin, Marshall and Co; Ford Educational Library film "The Great Lakes" (1925), via the U.S. National Archives and Internet Archive; Hart, Henry; Jeffness at English Wikipedia; Joseph O'Brien, USDA Forest Service; josh allen; KelleyCook; Kirk Dedoes; ksblack99; Michigan Sea Grant, unknown photographer; Murphy, W. F; NASA; NASA Johnson Space Center; National Park Service Digital Image Archives; NOAA Photo Library; Notorious4life; NPS; NPS Natural Resources; NPS Photo; Nyttend; Orange Risdon. Engraved by Rawdon, Clark & Co; Photo by Troy A. Heck; Popular Graphic Arts; Reelcheeper; Ruger, A., Stoner, J. J., Charles Shober & Co., Chicago Lithographing Co; Samuel Augustus Mitchell; Scan by NYPL; Shawn Steinfeger; Strong, Ezra Baldwin, Fillmore, Millard; The Story of Iron (US Bureau of Mines film), via Internet Archive; Thomas Mickell Burnham; Toledo Lucas County Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District - U.S. Army Corps of Enginers [sic] photo by Carmen Paris; U.S. Federal Highway Administration (author not named on Commons); U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Midwest Region; United States Navy / National Archives and Records Administration, via Internet Archive; US Army Corps of Engineers, Richard McDonald; usfs_Eastern_Region; USFWSmidwest; Victoria Stauffenberg; Wade9801; Wellge, H. (Henry), Beck & Pauli, Stoner, J. J., Wellge, H; WMrapids; Yinan Chen; Young, J. H. (James Hamilton), Finley, A. (Anthony). Map data: Natural Earth (public domain), naturalearthdata.com; U.S. Census Bureau, cartographic boundary files (2023); U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb (2020), state boundary including water. Music: "Bittersweet"; "Lost Time"; "Reawakening"; "Shores of Avalon"; "The Parting"; "Water Lily" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: trimmed, looped, volume-adjusted and mixed under narration. Narration: AI voice.