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Mears State Park was among 13 parks established in 1920 following the creation of the Michigan State Parks Commission a year earlier. [3] The park land, which was once owned by lumber baron Charles Mears, was donated to the state by his daughter Carrie Mears. [4] The park originally comprised only 16 acres "strictly made up of lake sand."
Paw Paw State Park – (c.1921–c.1927) in Paw Paw on Maple Lake; Pere Marquette River State Park – (1927–c.1940s) four sites—33, 12, 77 and 189 acres, respectively, along the Pere Marquette River in Mason County; Pictured Rocks State Park (1953–1966) - incorporated into the westernmost portion of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Pentwater is a village in Oceana County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 890 at the 2020 census. The village is located within Pentwater Township. Pentwater is home to Mears State Park. The name Pentwater comes from Pent or Penned up waters. [4]
Mears died in 1895, and passed the boardinghouse to his daughter, Carrie Ellen Mears. She closed the boardinghouse, but retained ownership until her own death in 1957. At that time, she bequeathed the boardinghouse and surrounding land to the state of Michigan. Part of the bequest became Mears State Park, and part was added to Silver Lake State ...
Silver Lake State Park is a 2,936-acre (1,188 ha) public recreation area bordering Lake Michigan and Silver Lake, four miles (6.4 km) west of Mears in Oceana County, Michigan. The state park is composed of mature forest land and over 2,000 acres (810 ha) of sand dunes .
Mears is on the west side of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, 3 miles (5 km) west of Hart, 23 miles (37 km) south of Ludington, and 39 miles (63 km) north of Muskegon. The Mears ZIP code, 49436, includes most of Golden Township as well as small areas of Pentwater Township to the north, Hart Township to the east, and Benona Township to the south ...
Articles related to state parks in the U.S. state of Michigan. For a manually maintained list, complete with yet-to-be-written articles, see List of Michigan state parks . See also: Template:Michigan state parks
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