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Muskegon

a city and county-seat of Muskegon co., Mich.; on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Muskegon river, MUSKEGON HEIGHTS MUSLIN and on the Père Marquette, the Grand river is navigable for about 100 miles Rapids, and Indiana, the Grand Trunk and interurban railroads. Its harbor is one of the best on the lake, and steamboats daily ply between it and Chicago, Milwaukee, and other lake ports. Here are the Hackley Manual Training School, MUSKDEER Hackley Public Library, hospitals, several National banks, electric lights, street railroads, county court house, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has large lumbering interests, tanneries, woolen mills, marble and granite works, furniture factories, a piano factory, engine and boiler shops, iron and steel works, large celery farms, etc. Pop. (1910) 24,062; (1920) 36,570.

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