Eduardo Peters

Did They Ever Find The Confederate Gold In Lake Michigan?

Treasure hunters say they have found $2million gold looted from Confederate treasury in Lake Michigan shipwreck. Was the Confederate gold found in Lake Michigan? The story goes that Union soldiers tracked down Confederate president Jefferson Davis in 1865 and confiscated his gold. The stolen loot was smuggled north some years later but ended up in …

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Is Michigan Split In Two?

Michigan is the only one of the states to be split into two large land segments: the sparsely populated but mineral-rich Upper Peninsula (commonly called “the U.P.”) slices eastward from northern Wisconsin between Lakes Superior and Michigan, and the mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula reaches northward from Indiana and Ohio Why is Michigan split two? A: Michigan’s …

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