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Muskegon

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Muskegon (məˈskiːɡən ), a city in the US. state of Michigan, is the county seat of Muskegon County. Situated around a harbor of Lake Michigan, Muskegon is known for fishing, sailing regattas, and pleasure boating, and as a commercial- and cruise-ship port. It is a popular vacation destination because of the expansive freshwater beaches, historic architecture, and public art collection. It is the most populous city along Lake Michigan's Eastern shore. At the 2020 United States Census, the city's population was 38,318. The southwest corner of Muskegon Township, the city is administratively autonomous. Muskegon is the center of the Muskegon metropolitan statistical area, which is coextensive with Muskegon County and had a population of 173,566 in 2019. It is also part of the larger Grand Rapids-Kentwood-Muskegon-combined statistical area with a population of 1,433,288. Human occupation of the Muskegon area goes back 7 to 8,000 years to the nomadic Paleo-Indian hunters who occupied the area following the retreat of the Wisconsonian glaciations. The paleo-Indians were superseded by several stages of Woodland Indian developments, the most notable were of the Hopewellian-type tradition, who occupied this area perhaps 2,000 years ago. The Muskegon area was previously inhabited by various bands of the Odawa (Ottawa) and Pottawatomi Indian tribes, but by 1830, the area was solely an Ottawa village. Perhaps the best-remembered of the area's native inhabitants was the Ottawa chief, Pendalouan. A leading participant in the French-inspired annihilation of the Fox Indians of Illinois in the 1730s, Pendalouan and his people lived in the Muskegon vicinity during the 1730s and '40s, until the French forced them to move their settlement to the Traverse Bay area in 1742. The name "Muskegon" is derived from the Ottawa tribe term mashkiigong, meaning "marshy river or swamp". The "Masquigon" River (Muskegon River) was identified on French maps dating from the late 17th century, suggesting French explorers had reached Michigan's western coast by that time.

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