Michigan Armstrong kids puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. The nation’s first regularly scheduled air passage service began operation between Grand Rapids and ______ in 1926.
  2. 3. Michigan abolished the _____ penalty in 1846 for all crimes other than treason, becoming not only the first state but the first English-speaking government in the world to do so.
  3. 6. During the war of 1812, ______ was hotly-contested territory. It was surrendered to the British in 1812, but the first attempt to retake the city in 1813 resulted in the River Raisin Massacre, which had the highest number of American casualties of any battle of the war. Detroit was finally recovered some nine months later during the Battle of Lake Erie.
  4. 7. You can get the best _______of your life at New York Times-acclaimed Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor.
  5. 10. The automobile air ____ was a contraption with an air scoop containing a block of ice that was held in place by closing the window as far as possible locking it between the top of the window and the door frame.
  6. 11. The Detroit metro area sits atop a gigantic ____ mine. According to some estimates, there's enough ____ down there to last for 70 million years at the world's current rate of consumption. (It is thought to reach all the way to Lake Michigan.)
  7. 12. The _____ bridge's deck was 4 feet below water level the way it was originally (intentionally) designed and functioned that way for many years.
  8. 13. The Kalamazoo Mall was the first outdoor ______ shopping mall in the United States.
  9. 15. Michigan has many trees whose sap is harvested in the spring and then boiled down to make _____ syrup.
  10. 18. Michigan is home to America's longest freshwater ______.
  11. 19. People from the Upper Peninsula sometimes call the people from the Lower Peninsula _____ because they live "under the bridge", meaning the Mackinac Bridge.
  12. 21. How many of the Great Lakes do not have any Michigan shoreline.
  13. 23. The state motto of Michigan state is "Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice". This translates to "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you".
  14. 26. This Lake is the lowest point in Michigan
  15. 27. Florida has the title of “Peninsula State,” which is just fine with Michigan that makes us much better since we have _____ of them.
  16. 28. The nineteen chandeliers in Michigan's Capital building are one of a kind, designed especially for the building by _______ of New York. (This glassmaker is likely the most famous glassmaker in the country-well known for their colorful glass lamps known, not surpisingly, as ______ lamps).
  17. 29. The Detroit _____, Michigans's only NFL football team, had at the time of making this puzzle only won 1 game this year.
  18. 31. The city of Hamtramck has an annual _____ Day celebration devoted to the greater glory of this Polish version of a jelly doughnut.
  19. 32. Many people in Michigan sport bumper stickers saying some form of smitten by the ____ because without the U.P. the that looks much like this clothing item.
  20. 33. In Saginaw County, you can find two of the most zany tourists locations in the United States:and Bronner's ______ Wonderland, which, at a length of 1.5 football fields, is the world's largest _____ store.
  21. 36. Battle Creek is known as "______ City USA" because the first cold ____, Corn flakes resulted by accident when the Kellogg brothers were trying to make granola. Many of this type of product is still made in Battle Creek to this day. Occasionaly you can smell it even at our house several miles away from the plant.
  22. 38. The Red Wings, Michigan's only professional _____ team, have "the longest active streak in any major sport" with a playoff streak "older than goalie Jared Coreau."
  23. 39. Vernor's Ginger Ale, which was created by a Detroit druggist, is possibly the oldest soft drink still on the market. It's definitely the oldest-surviving brand of _____ ale.
  24. 40. More tonnage passes though the historic ______ Locks in Sault Ste. Marie than the Suez and Panama Canals combined.
  25. 42. The name Michigan came from an _____ word, 'Mishigamaa' which means "large water" or "large lake".
  26. 43. A one-milestrech of Detroit rose was covered with this (whitish-gray) substance making it the world first ____-paved road.
  27. 44. is the only Great Lake fully in North America.
  28. 45. In 2008, the city of _____ passed a law that gave police the authority to arrest anyone whose pants sagged so low as to expose their undies or bare butts. The local plumber's union has evidently declined to comment (or comply).
  29. 46. The Lake Superior (one of the great lakes) shoreline, if straightened out, could connect Duluth Minnesota and the _____ islands.
  30. 49. In Saginaw County, you can find two of the most zany tourists locations in the United States: Frankenmuth, a small town whisked straight out of _______ ...
  31. 51. The Muskegon Winter Sports Complex offers visitors access to acres of ice, trails and woods for those brave enough to bare the cold temperatures. It is also home to one of only four of thiese ice tracks in the nation.
  32. 52. Henry _____ is one of Michigans most famous historical figures. Not only did he design and produce the first affordable car but he is the developer of the assembly line method of building things (cars in his case).
  33. 53. Oscoda claims to be the official hometown of the literary Paul _____, as the first published story about him appeared in the Oscoda Press in 1906. Oscoda puts on an annual Paul _____ Festival each September. (This man was a giant lumberjack with a blue Ox named Babe)
Down
  1. 1. The De Zwaan _____ in Holland, Mich. is not only a historic attraction, it’s also a functioning machine that produces healthy whole wheat flour for the local community and beyond.
  2. 4. ________ Records (a famous recording label) was founded in Detroit in the year 1959. The name of the record company came from putting the words 'motor' and 'town' together.
  3. 5. Cars are not allowed on Michigan's ______ Island. Travel is by bike, horse, or water vessel
  4. 8. The Mackinac Bridge is the world's longes bridge of this type.
  5. 9. ______ City is the tart (i.e., pie) cherry capital of the world, and hosts the week-long National Cherry Festival each July.
  6. 14. Kalamazoo was also the original home of _____ Guitars (one of the most respected acoustic guitar makers in the world), and a budget model produced in the ’60s and ’70s was called the Kalamazoo.
  7. 16. The slang name given to a person who lives in Michigan's upper peninsula
  8. 17. At any point in Michigan, you will be within 85 miles of one of the ______ Lakes.
  9. 20. In the year ____ twenty two, two French explorers were probably the first Europeans to ever see Lake superior in Michigan.
  10. 22. In 1879,the city of Detroit in Michigan became the first ever city to use phone ______.verywhere else you would call someone using their name.
  11. 24. The capital city of Michigan
  12. 25. The St. Clair Tunnel, Michigan Central Railway Tunnel and the Detroit Windsor Tunnel (all three in Michigan) are the world's first three tunnels that connected two different ______.
  13. 30. The ferry in this resort town is the only remaining chain-driven ferry in the country and is hand propelled.
  14. 34. _____ is the earliest version of snowboarding.
  15. 35. Even though Michigan is the ______ state, there are no longer any of these powerful members of the weasel family that resemble a small bear living in the wilds of Michigan.
  16. 37. _____ Ford, son of Henry (and no relation to Gerald R.), may forever be associated with Detroit's biggest flop, but he died 14 years before the line of cars bearing his name came out.
  17. 40. The sand on the beaches near Grand Haven is called ______ sand because it makes a whistling sound when it is walked on.
  18. 41. This city has long been considered home to the automobile industry in the United States.
  19. 45. Michigan is the only place in the entire world that has a _______ post office. The J.W. Westcott II is a boat that delivers mail to ships, and has been in action for over a hundred years.
  20. 47. This country is located on the other side of several of the Great Lakes that make up Michigans shoreline.
  21. 48. ______ Ste. Marie founded in 1668, was the first European settlement in the Midwest, and the third-oldest one west of the Appalachians.
  22. 50. this percent of Michigan is covered in water--that is more than any other state.