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Grand Lake is a substantial lake of approximately 7 miles (11 km) in length and up to 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in width. The lake is on the boundary between Presque Isle Township to the east and Krakow Township to the west, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Alpena on U.S. Highway 23 , which passes to the south and west of the lake.
St. Paul Catholic Church at 157 Lake Shore in Grosse Pointe Farms. The current French Gothic Revival structure was constructed in 1899 and designed by Harry J. Rill.. Grosse Pointe is a group of five affluent suburban communities on the coast of Lake St. Clair in the Detroit metropolitan area.
Lake Station was originally part of Surrey Township until Garfield Township was created in 1897. By 1877, a community named Lake Station formed around the train depot. A post office named Crooked Lake opened on February 28, 1877, with railroad agent Charles Howard Bates serving as the first postmaster. The name came from the nearby Crooked Lake.
Drayton Plains is an unincorporated community in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is located within Waterford Township. As an unincorporated community, Drayton Plains has no legally defined area or population statistics of its own. It once had its own post office with the 48020 ZIP Code but now uses the 48329 ...
Long Lake Township, officially the Charter Township of Long Lake, [3] is a charter township of Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,956 at the 2020 census , an increase from 8,662 at the 2010 census .
Green Lake Township is a civil township of Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 6,703 at the 2020 census , an increase from 5,784 at the 2010 census . The township is named after Green Lake , one of two large lakes in the township (the other being Duck Lake ).
Spring Lake Township is a civil township of Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,296 according to the 2020 census, up from 14,300 according to the 2010 census. The village of Spring Lake is located within the township. The city of Ferrysburg is south of the township bordering Lake Michigan, the Grand River and
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...