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David Walters, general manager of the Grand Haven Board of Light & Power, addresses city council after whistleblower claims against the GHBLP were made public on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.
A post office was established with that name in May 1851. In May 1867, the post office was renamed "Spring Lake", which was also the name of a station on the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway (later part of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad). The Village of Spring Lake was incorporated in 1869. [4]
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 ...
WGHN-FM plays adult contemporary music. Mary Ellen Murphy hosts Good Morning Grand Haven each weekday. WGHN-FM carries updates from CBS News Radio, as well as local news, sports and weather. It airs Michigan State University football and basketball games, serving as the team's radio affiliate for Muskegon, Grand Haven and Holland.
With the reorganization of 1939, Cleveland succeeded Grand haven as headquarters of the Ninth Coast Guard District, but Grand Haven remained an important location with a Coast Guard station, a lighthouse, and USCGC Escanaba, which exploded and sank on June 13, 1943, while on convoy duty in the North Atlantic. All but two men of the 103 man crew ...
Grandville was geographically an important place during the logging years in Michigan's history due to its location at the "river-bend" of the Grand River. It was important to have people there to make sure the logs did not jam up as the river turned north-west toward Grand Haven. Grandville was founded in 1833 and incorporated as a city in ...
The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Grand Haven Coal Tipple is a coaling tower designed to feed coal to steam locomotives located on the 300 block of North Harbor Drive (in Chinook Pier Park) in Grand Haven, Michigan. It is the tallest structure in the city. [2] The coal tipple was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. [1]
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