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Allegan
Located in Allegan County |
Allegan Fair Grounds
Allegan, MI 49010
(269) 735-3333
Water Street Place
420 Water St.
Allegan, MI 49010
(269) 673-5841
Heritage through our Ancestors
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Allegan, Michigan
Picture compliments of Marcia Ihrig Fotopoulos.
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Local History
In 1833, George Ketchum, of Marshall and Stephen Vickery and Anthony Cooley, of Kalamazoo, bought from the government the land now covered by the central part of the town. They and Elisha Ely and his son Alexander, of Rochester, New York, projected the village.
Samuel Foster became its first postmaster on July 24, 1833. The office was transferred to and renamed Otsego on March 6, 1835, but the Allegan post office was re-established on the sixteenth of the same month, with Alexander L. Ely as its postmaster.
First platted in 1837. Incorporated as a village in 1838 and as a city in 1907. Named by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft after the Allegan or Alleghen Indian tribe.
Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.