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FireKeepers Casino Hotel is a 236,000-square-foot (21,900 m 2) casino and hotel in Emmett Charter Township, Michigan, between Battle Creek and Marshall. It is owned and operated by the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi. Construction began May 7, 2008, [2] and the casino opened to the general public on August 5, 2009. [1]
Dozens of U.P. residents and visitors alike choose to test their mettle each winter by camping at the U.P.’s only year-round state park campground, Tahquamenon Falls.
The Tahquamenon Falls State Park is a 46,179-acre (18,688 ha) public recreation area in the U.S. state of Michigan. [3] It is the second largest of Michigan's state parks . Bordering on Lake Superior , most of the park is located within Whitefish Township in Chippewa County , with the western section of the park extending into McMillan Township ...
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The falls take their name from the river, which appears to come from Tahquamenon Island in Whitefish Bay, near the mouth of the river; the first written record of the name identifies the island as "Outakouaminan" in a 1671 French map. [4] The Tahquamenon River is mentioned by name in Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha, as the ...
The orange color of the falls is due to the tannins leached from trees alongside the river. Credit: Dustin Dilworth/d3imagery via Storyful Drone Video Shows Fall Colors at Tahquamenon Falls in ...
McMillan Township is a civil township of Luce County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The population was 2,471 at the 2020 census. [2] At 588.78 square miles (1,524.9 km 2) of total land area, McMillan Township is the largest municipality by area in the state of Michigan.
The river is best known for the Tahquamenon Falls, a succession of two waterfalls in Tahquamenon Falls State Park totalling approximately 73 feet (22 m) in height. Because the headwaters of the river are located in a boreal wetland that is rich in cedar, spruce and hemlock trees, the river's waters carry a significant amount of tannin in solution (i.e., it is a blackwater river), and are often ...