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Now, let’s see how you do with this Michigan Travel Trivia Question of The Month. Answer is due June 15, 2011.</p> <p>The Middle of the Mitten is the motto of a city that is the geographic center of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. Sydney Hastings, an early pioneer and surveyor of Gratiot County, is credited with making this determination. Celebrating its unique location is a plaque in the city park. Also remarkable to the city is its magnetic water springs, which some say can magnetize metal and restore health. Because of the many documented cures, thousands of people came to bathe in its curative water while staying at the Magnetic Springs Hotel. Among the notable people born in this city are Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass in American football history, and Edward Hartwick, a businessman after whom Hartwick Pines, the largest state park in the Lower Peninsula, was named. The city’s best-known high school graduate is Jim Northrup, the Detroit Tigers centerfielder who played on the 1968 World Championship team. Name this city located on the Pine River whose mineral springs proved to be a tourist magnet.</p> <p align="center">Email Answers & Facts to:<br /> randy@lakeshoreguardian.com</p> <p align="center">Mail Answers & Facts to:<br /> <span class="singlespace">TravelTrivia<br /> c/o The Lakeshore Guardian<br /> P.O. Box 6, Harbor Beach, MI 48441</span></p> <p>Know an interesting or unique fact about Michigan that you think would make a good Travel Trivia question? Then, please e-mail your suggestion to randy@lakeshoreguardian.com. 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