Petoskey (Michigan)
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 Petoskey Town Hall |
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Michigan | ||
| County : | Emmet County | ||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 22 ′ N , 84 ° 57 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 5,670 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 350 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 16.2 km 2 (about 6 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 202 m | ||
| Postal code : | 49770 | ||
| Area code : | +1 231 | ||
| FIPS : | 26-63820 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 634731 | ||
| Website : | www.petoskey.us | ||
| Mayor : | John Murphy | ||
Petoskey is a place in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Emmet County . There is a city partnership with Takashima in Japan.
geography
Petoskey is located in northern Michigan on Little Traverse Bay , extends approximately 13 km (8 miles) along Lake Michigan and has an area of approximately 13.70 km². The city is located at the mouth of the Bear River , which flows through the city.
The city is on US Highway 31, which runs through the city center. The next larger city with around 55,000 inhabitants is Saginaw, approx. 230 km away . The nearest airport is in Pellston, about 30 km away .
Chautauqua Bay View, founded in 1875, belongs to the city of Petoskey . In 1994, Bay Harbor , a mix of residential and resort , was added to the urban area. Bay Harbor is on the site of a former cement factory that had been fallow for years.
The Petoskey riverside area has a particularly high occurrence of the state stone of Michigan, the Petoskey , whose name is based on that of the city.
history
The area of today's city of Petoskey was formerly called "Bear River". This area has been settled for centuries by the Anishinabe , ancestors of what is now the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians , who still make up around 4% of the population today. The first white settlers were missionaries and fur traders from 1855, who discovered the great abundance of beavers for themselves. Although the government had guaranteed the indigenous people their land, from April 1875 there was the possibility for whites to purchase land. At that time Petoskey had 150 residents; In the first three days of land allocation in April 1875 alone, 800 "claims" were acquired.
The settlement was named Petoskey in 1873 in honor of the Odawa chief Ignatius Pet-O-Sega (also Petosegey ), who was born in 1787 as the son of a French fur trader and an Indian woman. In the Ottawa language, Pet-O-Sega means rays of light .
The region's economy was soon determined by the high occurrence of wood and limestone. The location right on Lake Michigan enabled quick transportation. For example, wood from Petoskey was used to rebuild Chicago after the great fire of 1871. After the railroad was built in Emmet County from 1873 and steamships called at Petoskeys Harbor, the city grew rapidly and also gained importance as a tourist destination. At the beginning of the 20th century there were already 14 hotels in Petoskey.
The first mayor of Petoskey was Hiram Obed Rose (1830-1911), who had previously made money in Northport selling wood for the operation of steamers and had bought 200 acres (approx. 81 hectares) of land in Petoskey in 1873. Rose then campaigned for the expansion of the railroad, founded the Michigan Lime Works and built the Petoskey Grand Opera House . He also ran numerous other businesses, such as B. a hotel and a department store. On March 5, 1886, electric lights could be switched on for the first time after Rose had built the necessary system. Hiram O. Rose is also known as "Petoskey's Father" and Rose Street was named after him.
Demographics
| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
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| 1970 | 6342 | - | |
| 1980 | 6097 | -3.9% | |
| 1990 | 6056 | -0.7% | |
| 2000 | 6080 | 0.4% | |
| 2010 | 5670 | -6.7% | |
| 2014 estimate | 5738 | 1.2% | |
According to the 2010 census, Petoskey had 5,670 residents; for 2014 the population was extrapolated to 5,738, of which 12.3% live below the poverty line. The average annual income per household (calculated over the period 2010-2014) was $ 40,161. The population was 91.7% whites , 4.7% Indigenous Americans , 0.7% black or African American, and 0.4% Asians . Their mean age was 39.8 years.
The average household size was 2.1 and the average family size was 2.81 people.
Culture and sights
The city center of Petoskeys, then called Midway , developed into the city's shopping district from around 1890. The Victorian style has been preserved over time and is now one of the city's attractions as the Historic Gaslight District with various events.
Others
In his youth, Ernest Hemingway often spent his vacations in a family vacation home on Lake Walloon, south of Petoskey. After the First World War , Hemingway returned to Petoskey in the winter of 1919. The short novel The storm surges of Spring ( The Torrents of Spring ) plays in Petoskey, and some short stories with the protagonist Nick Adams are in the not distant place Horton Bay settled.
sons and daughters of the town
- Bruce Catton (1899–1978), journalist
- Claude Shannon (1916–2001), founder of information theory
- Hal Smith (1916–1994), singer, actor, radio and voice actor
- David Malpass (* 1956), economist
- Jim Slater (* 1982), ice hockey player
- Megan Boone (born 1983), actress
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael R. Federspiel, Rebecca Zeiss: Chapter 1: Petoskey. In: Little Traverse Bay, Past and Present. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2014, ISBN 978-0-8143-3819-3 , p. 23
- ↑ The History of Petoskey and Emmet County , at: Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce website, accessed February 27, 2016
- ↑ History on: petoskeydowntown.com, accessed on June 13, 2016
- ↑ a b Quick Facts on: US Census Bureau website, accessed April 18, 2016
- ^ Hemingway's Michigan Story . Petoskey Museum website, accessed May 28, 2016