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Free Soil, Michigan. / 44.10778°N 86.21583°W / 44.10778; -86.21583. Free Soil is a village in Mason County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 158 at the 2020 census. [ 2] The village is located within Free Soil Township .
26-105-30620 [3] GNIS feature ID. 1626315 [4] Website. freesoiltownship .org. Free Soil Township is a civil township of Mason County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 842 at the 2020 census. [2] The village of Free Soil is located within the township. Free Soil Township was named in 1848 after the Free Soil Party.
The Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was largely focused on the single issue of opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States . The Free Soil Party formed during the 1848 ...
The Thumb is a region and a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten.The Thumb area is generally considered to be in the Central Michigan region, east of the Flint area and the Tri-Cities and north of Metro Detroit.
National conventions of the Free Soil and Liberty parties met in 1847 and 1848 to nominate candidates for president and vice president in advance of the 1848 United States presidential election. The conventions resulted in the creation of the national Free Soil Party, a union of political abolitionists with antislavery Conscience Whigs and ...
The history of human activity in Michigan, a U.S. state in the Great Lakes, began with settlement of the western Great Lakes region by Paleo-Indians perhaps as early as 11,000 B.C.E. One early technology they developed was the use of native copper, which they would fashion into tools and other implements with "hammer stones".
The tornado injured an estimated 117 people and inflicted $17.6 million (1953 USD) on both of the towns. June 8, 1953 – A violent F4 tornado hit Temperance, killing 4 people and destroying 14 houses. The tornado caused an estimated $250,000 (1953 USD) in damages, and was one of multiple deadly tornadoes in Michigan on June 8.
Michigan voted for the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, over Whig candidate Zachary Taylor and Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren. Cass won his home state, for which he was serving as a United States Senator, by a margin of 10.44%. This was the last time until 1968 that a Democrat would carry Michigan without winning the presidency. Results