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Local History

An old lumber boom town.  Archibald Reed platted its eastern end as Reedsville.  In 1872, Messrs. Phillips and Brown unofficially named the settlement around their mill North Muskegon, from its location north of that city.  Given a post office as North Muskegon on April 20, 1881 until December 31, 1907, when it was made a branch of the Muskegon post office.  Incorporated as a village in 1881 and as a city in 1891. 

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

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