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Also in 1855, two competing railroad lines serving Grand Haven, the Oakland and Ottawa Railroad and the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad, merged to form the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad. The Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad aimed to develop a direct car ferry route across Lake Michigan from Grand Haven. Over the next three years, they developed the ...
Here's several other Michigan spots you can see using live camera footage: Detroit: Downtown Detroit , Campus Martius and the Detroit River from Dossin Great Lakes Museum .
The park is bordered by Lake Michigan to the west, the Grand River on the north, and City Beach to the south. [3] A large pier next to the state park supports the harbor's entrance light and inner lighthouse (pictured at right). The pier connects to a boardwalk that extends approximately one mile upstream toward the commercial district of Grand ...
Grand Haven is a city within the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Ottawa County. [4] Grand Haven is located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Grand River, for which it is named. As of the 2020 census, Grand Haven had a population of 11,011.
P. J. Hoffmaster State Park is a public recreation area on the shores of Lake Michigan located five miles north of Grand Haven at the southwest corner of Norton Shores, in Muskegon County, and the northwest corner of Spring Lake Township, in Ottawa County, in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Grand Haven South Pierhead Inner Light is the inner light of two lighthouses on the south pier of Grand Haven, Michigan where the Grand River enters Lake Michigan. A lighthouse was first lit there in 1839. [3] The lighthouse was put up for sale in 2009 under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act. [4]
The Thornapple River (Ottawa: Sowanquesake, "Forked River") [4] (GNIS ID #1075813 [5]) is an 88.1-mile-long (141.8 km) [6] tributary of Michigan's longest river, the Grand River. The Thornapple rises in Eaton County, Michigan and drains a primarily rural farming area in Central Michigan .
Harbor Transit (officially, the Harbor Transit Multi-Modal Transportation System) is the primary bus agency providing intra- and inter-city public transportation service for the Ferrysburg–Grand Haven–Spring Lake tri-cities region in northwestern Ottawa County, Michigan, which is considered part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area.