Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
PETOSKEY , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Emmet county . See also:Michigan, U.S.A., on Little See also:Traverse See also:Bay, an See also:arm of See also:Lake Michigan, at the mouth of See also:Bear See also:Creek, in the See also:north-See also:west See also:part of the See also:lower See also:peninsula . Pop . (189o), 2872; (1900), 5285, of whom 856 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1904), 5186; (1910), 4778 . It is served by the Pere See also:Marquette and the See also:Grand Rapids & See also:Indiana See also:rail-ways and by steamboat lines to See also:Chicago, See also:Detroit, See also:Buffalo and other lake ports . Bear Creek furnishes considerable See also:water-See also:power, and among the manufactures are See also:lumber, See also:paper, See also:leather and foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products . Petoskey was settled about 1874, was incorporated as a See also:village in 1879, was chartered as a city in 1895, and in 1902 replaced Harbor Springs as county-seat . It was named after an Ojibwa See also:Indian See also:chief . |
|
|
[back] ALEXANDER PETOFI (1823—1849) |
[next] PETRA (r) |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.