Wolverines vs Hoosiers…. Let’s Roll!
”The commission determined at least 100 mile posts along the border need to be re-established. The firm identified 10 potential areas of conflict that would need to be cleared up between the two states.”
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We will take Shipshewana, they can have Edwardsburg.
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Hell, I’ll give them all of Ohio
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I think we should create a two mile wide DMZ the entire length of the border between Michigan and Indiana to keep the peace.
I will take sole responsibility to patrol it and deer hunt it to keep the whitetail population in check.
Since it won’t be part of Indiana or Michigan I will set the hunting rules that I must abide by while keeping both states safe and managing the deer herd to avoid overpopulation.
No need to thank me…just doing my civic duty
#NotAllHerosWearCapes
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“Regulators Mount Up. It’s time to Fight For Our Border”
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Dude I’m not allowed to eat poutine. Stop tempting me.
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I was under the impression that if you got a IV in Canada, it was essentially Poutine run through a blender and forced through the tube
Word is that the gravy helps keep it flowing
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I got an unsatisfactory handy under a bridge by a creek that had a bunch of 5 ft long carp in it in Angola once…let’s roll.
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I have also heard that carp give terrible handjobs.
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The last time this happened, Michigan ended up with the Upper Peninsula. The Michigan-Ohio “war” always cracked me up. Imagine today Michigan kidnapping the Mayor of Shipshewana because the mayor was an Indiana official doing Indiana’s bidding and Michigan’ claimed it was their territory. Or Indiana bring a giant ass wooden cannon (fake) and planting on the disputed land. In case you want to know why these two states have always been rivals: The pettiest move of the Toledo War was Ohio making it literally illegal to be a Michigan official in the disputed land - and Michigan immediately doing the exact same thing back
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Right, I was thinking about that when I made the original post.
LOL…@..”Ohio sympathizer”.
From Grok.
”Yes, gunfire was exchanged during the Toledo War (1835–1836), the border dispute between the Michigan Territory and the state of Ohio over a 468-square-mile strip of land known as the Toledo Strip (which included the valuable port city of Toledo).Key events involving actual shooting:July 1835: Michigan’s territorial militia, led by Governor Stevens T. Mason, attempted to arrest Ohio officials who were conducting surveys and court sessions in the disputed area. On July 15, Michigan deputy sheriff Joseph Wood pursued an Ohio surveying party near Toledo. During the confrontation, Wood fired his pistol at an Ohioan named Two Stickney (wounding him slightly in the leg—the only known injury of the entire conflict).
Ohio responded by sending its own militia to the area, and both sides conducted armed patrols and maneuvers. There were several tense standoffs with hundreds of armed men facing each other across the border line.
In September 1835, Michigan partisans raided the home of an Ohio sympathizer in Toledo and there were additional exchanges of gunfire (no serious casualties).
Despite all the bluster, posturing, and occasional shots fired, no one was killed in the conflict. The only significant casualty was the man lightly wounded in the leg by the Michigan deputy’s pistol shot. Because of this, the Toledo War is often described as a “bloodless war” in popular memory—but technically, gunfire was indeed exchanged.The dispute was ultimately resolved by the federal government: President Andrew Jackson and Congress awarded the Toledo Strip to Ohio in exchange for giving Michigan the Upper Peninsula when it became a state in 1837.”
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Catfish do a pretty good job though…but it can get a bit “spicy” if ya know what I mean
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I kinda like Edwardsburg, but I’d trade it and Niles for Shipshe, easy.
Supposedly Ohio sympathizers (lol) originally called Michigan supporters “Wolverines” as an insult during the Toledo War because they thought they were nasty, stubborn, and vicious about the whole thing. Michigan basically said, “Cool - we’ll take that,” and about 50 years later the university officially adopted it as a badge of honor.
The border war that really fascinates me, though partly because my genealogy leads right into it - is Cresap’s War between Pennsylvania and Maryland in the 1730s. The more I read about it, the more insane it sounds. Imagine landing from Europe, heading out to claim your land, buying a deed under Maryland law… only to find some guy already living there holding a Pennsylvania title to the exact same property.
Now you’ve got two sets of law enforcement from two different colonies, land agents on both sides stirring things up, nobody agreeing on where the actual border is. Cabins getting burned. Roads blocked. Magistrates kidnapped. Settlers intimidated into leaving. All because, just like the Michigan-Ohio mess, the surveyors screwed up so badly that for a while all of southern Pennsylvania - including Philadelphia - was technically in Maryland on paper before anyone caught the error.
The central character in all this was Thomas Cresap. Maryland basically hired him as their enforcer to protect their territorial claims. Pennsylvania dubbed him “The Monster of Maryland.” Total frontiersman - every bit the equal of Daniel Boone. Eventually Pennsylvania sent a posse after him, smoked him out of his house, hauled him to Philadelphia in chains… and when they asked him how he liked Philadelphia, as they marched him through the streets he replied:
“The prettiest town in all of Maryland.”
Stone cold legend.
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