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MUSKEGON

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUSKEGON , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Muskegon county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., on Muskegon See also:lake, an expansion of Muskegon See also:river near its mouth, about 4 in. from Lake Michigan and 38 in. N.W. of See also:Grand Rapids. . Pop. (18go), 22,702; (1900), 20,818, of whom 6236 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 24,062. It is served by the Grand See also:Trunk, the Pere See also:Marquette, the Grand Rapids & See also:Indiana, and the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon (electric) See also:railways, and by steamboat lines to See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee and other lake ports. There are several summer resorts in the vicinity. As the gifts of See also:Charles H. Hackley (1837-1905), a See also:rich lumberman, the city has an endowment fund to the public See also:schools of about $2,000,000; a See also:manual training school, which has an endowment of $600,000, and is one of the few endowed public schools in the See also:United States; a public library, with an endowment of $275,000; a public See also:hospital with a $600,000 endowment; and a See also:Door fund endowment of $300,000. In Hackley See also:Park there are statues of See also:Lincoln and See also:Farragut, and at the Hackley School there is a statue of See also:McKinley; all three are by C. H. See also:Niehaus. The See also:municipality owns and operates its See also:water-See also:works.

Muskegon lake is 5 M. See also:

long and 11 m. wide, with a See also:depth of 30 to 40 ft., and is See also:ice-See also:free throughout the See also:year. The channel from Muskegon lake to Lake Michigan has been improved to a depth of 20 ft. and a width of 300 ft. by the Federal See also:government since 1867. From Muskegon are shipped large quantities of See also:lumber and See also:market-See also:garden produce, besides the numerous manufactures of the city. The See also:total value of all factory products in 1904 was $6,319,441 (39.6 % more than in 1900), of which more than one-See also:sixth was the value of lumber. A trading See also:post was established here in 1812, but a permanent See also:settlement was not established until 1834. Muskegon was laid out as a See also:town in 1849, incorporated as a See also:village in 1861, and chartered as a city in 1869. The name is probably derived from a Chippewa word, maskeg or muskeg, meaning " grassy See also:bog," still used in that sense in See also:north-western See also:America.

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