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Glen Haven, located on Sleeping Bear Bay, developed as a Lake Michigan deep water port to service shipping traffic with firewood, lumber and other supplies and services. In 1857, Glen Haven, was founded as a settlement called Sleeping Bearville when C. C. McCarty, brother-in-law of Glen Arbor pioneer John E. Fisher, built a saw mill and inn on ...
The city of Richmond borders the township to the northeast, and the village of New Haven is in the south. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 38.9 square miles (101 km 2), of which 0.2 square miles (0.5 km 2), or 0.43%, are water.
Grand Haven is a city within the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Ottawa County. [4] Grand Haven is located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Grand River, for which it is named. As of the 2020 census, Grand Haven had a population of 11,011.
East Haven is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, in the United States.As of the 2020 census, the town population was 27,923. [1] The town is located 3 miles (5 km) east of New Haven, and is part of the South Central Connecticut Planning Region.
The area which North Haven now exists was first settled in 1665. [4] The village incorporated itself in 1931. [4]In January 2007, Robert W. Rust, a former assistant U.S. attorney decorated for helping save the life of President John F. Kennedy almost three years before he was assassinated, placed his 55-acre (220,000 m 2) waterfront estate in the village of North Haven onto the market for $80 ...
A village is usually, but not always, within a single town. A village may be coterminous with, and have a consolidated government with, a town. A village is a clearly defined municipality that provides the services closest to the residents, such as garbage collection, street and highway maintenance, street lighting and building codes.
German explorer Pierre Yax (b.1763) in Grosse Pointe, New France (now Michigan) was the first recorded non-Native American in the New Baltimore area. [9] [10] Pierre Yax was a son of Johan Michael Jacks, the first German in what would eventually become the state of Michigan. [10]
Michigan is divided into 83 counties, the primary administrative division of Michigan. This local government division has its greatest effect on unincorporated lands within the county, and can provide service which can include law enforcement, justice administration, health care, among other basic services.