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Local History

With the lumbering era gone, the area needed new business.  Its leaders formed the Muskegon Improvement Company in 1890, bought some 1000 acres of land, platted it, and sold the lots in lottery fashion.  The profits were used chiefly to subsidize new industries.

The plan succeeded and the town was incorporated as a village in 1891 and as a city in 1903.

Given a station on the Chicago & Western Michigan (now Pere Marquette) Railroad.  William Charles Hopper became its first postmaster on July 25, 1891, the office becoming a branch of the Muskegon post office on May 14, 1896.

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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