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Newaygo: August 22, 1985: Saint Mark's Episcopal Church: 30 Justice Street Newaygo: September 21, 1983: Daniel Weaver House: NW Corner of Michigan Avenue and Cook Street Hesperia: September 26, 1987: White Cloud Village Hall (Demolished) 1084 Wilcox White Cloud: March 16, 1982: John F. Woods Residence: 59 Bridge Street Newaygo: June 10, 1980
Newaygo State Park is a public recreation area covering 400 acres (160 ha) on the south side of Hardy Dam Pond in Big Prairie Township, Newaygo County, Michigan. The state park sits atop 20-foot (6.1 m) embankments overlooking the six-mile-long (10 km), 4,000-acre (1,600 ha) impoundment of the Muskegon River .
Bodies of water of Newaygo County, Michigan (2 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 4 July 2014, at 20:02 (UTC). Text is ...
Newaygo County (/ n ə w eɪ ɡ oʊ / nə-WAY-goh) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 49,978. [ 2 ] The county seat is White Cloud . [ 3 ]
The Grant Depot and Water Tower (or The Grand Rapids, Newaygo and Lake Shore Railroad Company Depot and Water Tower) is a state historical site in Grant, Michigan. The railroad depot and water tower were built in 1891 by the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad, and within a few years became part of the Pere Marquette System. The water tower is ...
Newaygo's recorded history goes back to the 1600s and the French coureur des bois (independent trappers) and, later, fur company voyageurs that travelled by canoe via the Muskegon River. It was ostensibly named after Chief Nuwagon, an Ojibwe leader who signed the Treaty of Saginaw in 1819, [6] or for an Algonquian word meaning "much water". [7]
The Edward E. Hartwick Memorial Building is a 1-1/2 story rustic log structure built entirely of Michigan pine, and is one of the few remaining examples of the rustic log architecture used in the 1920s and 1930s by the Michigan State Park system. 3: M-72–Au Sable River Bridge: M-72–Au Sable River Bridge: December 9, 1999
Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities (Paperback). Great Lakes Books Series. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1838-X