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White settlers first arrived in the Vicksburg area in the early 1830s, and in 1849 the village was first platted. By 1861, Vicksburg had multiple businesses established in its downtown. Growth increased starting in 1870 with the arrival of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. Through the rest of the 19th century, the downtown commercial area ...
On June 28, 1889, the Michigan Legislature passed Act 455 to consolidate the City of Saginaw and the City of East Saginaw into a new city that also was named the City of Saginaw. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Prior to this consolidation, the village of Salina had already been added to the City of East Saginaw.
Vicksburg is a village in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States. The population was 3,706 at the 2020 census . The west part of the village is in Schoolcraft Township and the east part is in Brady Township .
Saginaw Charter Township is a charter township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 41,679 at the 2020 census . The city of Saginaw is adjacent to the township to the southeast, but is administratively autonomous.
The district was formed in 1955 when the Saginaw City School District demanded that any rural schools sending students to Saginaw High School either have a joint program or join the district. A Buena Vista study committee recommended that instead the township's area school districts consolidate into a new district.
The City of East Saginaw and the City of Saginaw were consolidated by an act of the Legislature of the State of Michigan in 1889 and was given the same name as the former City of Saginaw. The city charter was granted by legislative act and provided for an elected executive mayor and a city council consisting of 21 aldermen elected from several ...
The siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the ...
The City of Saginaw (Saginaw City) is a defunct city in Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan that has been consolidated into a new municipality bearing the same name. To distinguish between the currently existing City of Saginaw and the former City of Saginaw, the name Saginaw City is used [ 1 ] for the defunct city even though it was ...