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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

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

Muskegon lake is 5 M.

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

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