Muskegon (/mʌˈskiË É¡É™n/) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan,
and is the largest populated city on the western shores of Michigan.
At the 2010 census the city population was 38,401. The city is the
county seat of Muskegon County. It is at the southwest corner of
Muskegon Township, but is administratively autonomous.The Muskegon
Metro area had a population of 173,566 in 2019. It is also part of the
larger Grand Rapids-Kentwood-Muskegon-Combined Statistical Area with a
population of 1,433,288.Human occupation of the Muskegon area goes
back seven or eight thousand years to the nomadic Paleo-Indian hunters
who occupied the area following the retreat of the Wisconsonian
glaciations. The Paleo-Indians were superseded by several stages of
Woodland Indian developments, the most notable of whom were the
Hopewellian type-tradition, which occupied this area, perhaps two
thousand years ago.During historic times, the Muskegon area was
inhabited by various bands of the Odawa (Ottawa) and Pottawatomi
Indian tribes, but by 1830 Muskegon was solely an Ottawa village.
Perhaps the best remembered of the area's Indian inhabitants was the
Ottawa Indian Chief, Pendalouan. A leading participant in the
French-inspired annihilation of the Fox Indians of Illinois in the
1730s, Pendalouan and his people lived in the Muskegon vicinity during
the 1730s and 1740s until the French induced them to move their
settlement to the Traverse Bay area in 1742.
and is the largest populated city on the western shores of Michigan.
At the 2010 census the city population was 38,401. The city is the
county seat of Muskegon County. It is at the southwest corner of
Muskegon Township, but is administratively autonomous.The Muskegon
Metro area had a population of 173,566 in 2019. It is also part of the
larger Grand Rapids-Kentwood-Muskegon-Combined Statistical Area with a
population of 1,433,288.Human occupation of the Muskegon area goes
back seven or eight thousand years to the nomadic Paleo-Indian hunters
who occupied the area following the retreat of the Wisconsonian
glaciations. The Paleo-Indians were superseded by several stages of
Woodland Indian developments, the most notable of whom were the
Hopewellian type-tradition, which occupied this area, perhaps two
thousand years ago.During historic times, the Muskegon area was
inhabited by various bands of the Odawa (Ottawa) and Pottawatomi
Indian tribes, but by 1830 Muskegon was solely an Ottawa village.
Perhaps the best remembered of the area's Indian inhabitants was the
Ottawa Indian Chief, Pendalouan. A leading participant in the
French-inspired annihilation of the Fox Indians of Illinois in the
1730s, Pendalouan and his people lived in the Muskegon vicinity during
the 1730s and 1740s until the French induced them to move their
settlement to the Traverse Bay area in 1742.
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