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Dowagiac (/ d ə ˈ w ɑː dʒ æ k / də-WAH-jak) is a city in Cass County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,721 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is part of the South Bend – Mishawaka , IN -MI, Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Dowagiac Area History Museum on West Railroad Street, in Dowagiac, Michigan has the largest public collection of Round Oak heating stoves in the world. The museum's vast collection includes (in addition to stoves) artifacts related to P.D. Beckwith's grain drill and early stove business, advertising, company ledgers and papers, workers ...
P.D. (Philo D.) Beckwith (1835–1889) was the founder of Round Oak Stove Company (later officially known as the Estate of P.D. Beckwith Inc.) and Mayor of Dowagiac, Michigan. Born in 1835 in New York City, Philo D. Beckwith settled in Dowagiac, Michigan in 1854 and opened a foundry. His experiments with heating stoves in the 1860s led to the ...
The tribe opened a third, Four Winds Dowagiac, [7] in 2013 in Dowagiac, Michigan. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The band has been limited to three casinos by its 2008 compact with the state of Michigan. In 2018 the tribe opened Four Winds South Bend in South Bend, Indiana , which it has claimed qualifies for gaming pursuant to specific provisions of the Indian ...
Mr. Whiteley moved his family to Dowagiac in 1915 in order to buy into and manage the Dowagiac Daily News. Harry H. Whiteley (1882–1957) used his successful Dowagiac newspaper and his position as a member of the Michigan Senate (1923–26) and the Michigan Conservation Commission (1927–48) to shape Michigan's public land policy.
Southwestern Michigan College is a public community college with its main campus near Dowagiac, Michigan. It also has a campus just outside the city limits of Niles, Michigan . History
Feb. 18—DOWAGIAC — One of the city's most famous properties has been listed for sale. The historic Lee Mansion, 405 W. High St., was listed for sale last week through Cressy & Everett Real Estate.
The county is named for Lewis Cass, [4] the Michigan Territorial Governor at the time the county was created in 1829. Cass later served as the United States Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, thus making a case for including Cass County as one of Michigan's "cabinet counties".