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The city is in western Muskegon County on the north side of Muskegon Lake, an arm of Lake Michigan. It is bordered to the south, across the lake, by the city of Muskegon, the county seat. The Muskegon River flows into Muskegon Lake in the eastern part of the city. The lake's outlet channel to Lake Michigan is a mile west of the city limits.
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...
Muskegon County (/ m ə ˈ s k iː ɡ ən / mə-SKEE-gən) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan.As of 2020, the population was 175,824. [2] The county seat is Muskegon. [3]Muskegon County comprises the Muskegon, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Grand Rapids-Kentwood-Muskegon, MI Combined Statistical Area.
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Southern pier of the Muskegon Lake entrance channel at Lake Michigan, 500 ft (150 m) from shore 43°13′36″N 86°20′29″W / 43.226667°N 86.341389°W / 43.226667; -86.341389 ( Muskegon South Pierhead
The area was part of French Canada from 1668 to 1763. In 1701, the French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, along with fifty-one additional French-Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, now the city of Detroit. When New France was defeated in the French and Indian War, it ceded the region to Britain in 1763.
Bounded roughly by Clay, Muskegon, Second, and Sixth streets Muskegon: October 29, 1971: Muskegon Log Booming Company Informational Site 44 Ottawa Street Muskegon: August 23, 1956: Muskegon Woman's Club: 280 Webster Avenue Muskegon: September 3, 1998: Muskegon State Park: 462 North Scenic Drive Muskegon: July 26, 2009: Old Indian Cemetery: 351 ...
North Carolina: December 22, 1789: February 25, 1790: Ceded its trans-Appalachian Washington District, a swath between present north and south border-latitudes west to the Mississippi River, from which the federal government created the Southwest Territory, and subsequently the State of Tennessee. South Carolina: March 8, 1787: August 9, 1787