Six Legendary Times States Had To Commandeer Their Own Cities

On Friday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced a state of emergency in deficit-plagued Detroit and would move to appoint a city manager to take control of the city's finances.

It's a bad situation.

But it's not the first time in American history something like this has happened.

We went to look at six infamous moments where major American cities ceded control of their operations to their states.

In most cases, the cities had no recourse to bankruptcy. In one case, there was a war on.

If there is any lesson, it's that cities are incapable of learning from their sisters' mistakes.

So this list will almost certainly need to be updated in the future.