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The Spoonville site, also designated 20OT1, [3] is a historic archeological site, located on the banks of the Grand River in Crockery Township, Ottawa County, Michigan, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
Ottawa County (/ ˈ ɒ t ə w ə / OT-ə-wə) is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the United States 2020 Census, the population was 296,200. [1] The county seat is Grand Haven. [2] The county is named for the Ottawa Nation. It was set off in 1831 and organized in 1837.
The first European explorers in the Ottawa County region were the French-Canadian explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette, who passed through the region in the mid 17th century. European settlement in the area proceeded slowly until the mid 19th century, when zinc was discovered in Crockery Creek in 1858. (Barnes, 1997) In 1872, the ...
The primary Native American languages in Michigan are Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, all of which are dialects of Algonquin. Some other places names in Michigan are found to be derived from Sauk , Oneida , Wyandot , Abenaki , Shawnee , Mohawk , Seneca , Seminole , Iroquois , and Delaware , although many of these tribes are not found in Michigan.
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.
The Pigeon River is a small river flowing to Lake Michigan on the western Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.The river is approximately 12.9 miles (20.8 km) long [4] [a] and drains an area of 61.7 square miles (160 km 2) [6] [b] in a generally rural area situated between the cities of Holland and Grand Haven.
Michigan County History and atlases, digitized database, including Powers, Perry F., assisted by H.G. Cutler, A History of Northern Michigan and its People (1912) Michigan County names per the Michigan government. Archived July 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine; Table of dates counties laid out and organized; History of the name Sheboygan
Nunica is an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Michigan.The community is located near the center of Crockery Township in Ottawa County, close to the junction of Interstate 96 (I-96) M-104 and M-231 at