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6A WWW.FREEP.COM SATURDAY, NOV.26,2011 Police and fire service also travel across two state borders. These homeowners, north of Point Place neighborhood, pay to have their private streets plowed and their garbage collected. Bottle deposits remain a episode. As college-football fans on both sides of the once-disputed Toledo Strip prepare for Michigan-Ohio State game, those who live on orphaned acreage have to look beyond their mailing address to feel the hostility. This geographic gag resulted from the territorial compromise that ended the battle between the Wolverine and Buckeye Michigan ceding a stretch of land in exchange for statehood and another, more well-known peninsula to the north.

(Ask a Badgers fan for more details.) Local historian Bob Trace grew up in the Lost Peninsula, but left for Point Placein1964 when he got married. The 70- year-old retired teacher remembers hearing stories about bootleggers on the peninsula during Prohibition. ask, you live in Michigan or and you say, he said. in the Lost Peninsula lost. They know where it Technically part of the Michigan city of Erie, the Lost Peninsula is home to the be- loved 78-year-old taurant, a marina and a handful of homes.

A second, newer eatery, the River sits so directly on the border that the restaurant itself is in Michigan and part of the parking lotisin Ohio. The border is marked by a squat cement monument installed in 1915 and rededicated 50 years later. inscribed with a line from Robert poem fences make good where the smaller homes of Point Place give way to more palatial spreads and an isolated marina along Edgewater Drive. where Toledo Blade newspaper boxes switch suddenly to ones with Monroe News on the sideand where runners jog the route without thinking twice about crossing state lines. definitely Michigan- Crydermansaid.

People called peninsula like lost. You have to have to go into Ohio to get is funny. It is strange, but thenyou say, there was this war a long time they drew this imaginary line and said one side is Michigan and one side is Over the years, the two states have tried to take care of the cartographic quirk. In 1956, and again in 1963, there was talk about transferring the Lost Peninsula to Ohio. Ann Hurley, a reference librarian at the Toledo-Lucas County Public Li- brary, said the first time, the issue was dropped and the second time, when plans were in place for a marina, squabbling over land prices killed it.

More recently, in the mid-2000s, a developer wanted to build condos on the blip of bickering between Erie and Toledo over the water supply prevented the deal from gelling, according to news reports from the time. have anything to do with said Florence Briggs, 81, who moved to the Lost Peninsula 55 years ago to raise her five children and remembers when neighborhood residents had Ohio license plates on their cars. just asmall I think anyone wants to go back to Ohio. We like it the way it Playing both sides is Dustin Carter, a fifth-grader at Central Elementary School in Erie. Thougha resident of the Lost Peninsula and therefore Michigan, he roots for Ohio StateUni- versity.

really said the 10-year-old, adding that his classmates treat him the same as the kids from mainland Michigan. Added his father, Joe, 38, not a big And Trace? He likes the Lost Peninsula just the way it is: alittle community, a lot of esprit de CONTACT ZLATI MEYER: 313-223-4439 OR Technically part of the Michigan city of Erie, the Lost Peninsula is home to the beloved 78-year-old restaurant, this marina and a handful of homes. About 140 people live on the 126.51-acre spit of land. NOV. 8 PHOTOS BY SUSAN FREE PRESS PENINSULA: Townis a reminder of Michigan-Ohio rivalry FROM PAGE 1A Nancy and Bob Cryderman, both 67, have lived on the Lost Peninsula for 15 years.

When Nancy Crydermancalled 911 after falling in her home, she got an operator in Toledo who had to transferher call. The border is marked by a squat cement monument installed in 1915 and rededicated 50 years later. inscribed with a line from Robert poem fences make good state motto is Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam which means, you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about home to five peninsulas, beyond the Upper and Lower. Some are more famous than others. Can you find the Keweenaw, Leelanau, Old Mission, Garden and Thumb? MARTHA FREE PRESS CAN YOU LOCATE PENINSULAS? Answers on Page 8A COVER STORY MICHIGAN'S LOST PENINSULA.