Alpena (Michigan)
Alpena County
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Alpena is a city in the American state of Michigan. The city is the administrative seat of the homonymous Alpena County, and lies at the Thunder Bay on Lake Huron. Alpena had to stand in 2000 11,000 inhabitants. Despite its small population Alpena is by far the largest city in the sparsely populated north-eastern Michigan and is the commercial and cultural center.
History and Economics
The present territory Alpenas in 1819 ceded along with large parts of north-eastern Michigan in the Treaty of Saginaw of the Indian tribes residing here. About 1835 settled here temporarily, the first white settlers down, a fisherman named WF culling.
As in 1839, the area was surveyed by a surveying party, she was offered the land in the total area of the present town instead of wages of a squad member for a summer. The offer took none, the swampy and isolated area seemed less attractive. 1854 settled the first permanent settler Daniel Carter came with his wife and daughter and built a log cabin.
1856 parceled in this place George N. Fletcher along with three other men from Detroit a village which they called after the Republican presidential candidate John C. Frémont Fremont. Since there was already another Fremont in Michigan, the place was named in 1857 after the Alpena County. The word Alpena is phonetically derived from a Native American word for partridge. 1857 Fletcher opened a shop and an inn, 1859, the first sawmill was built, which was operated with steam power.
1871 Alpena became the City. The city took an economic boom in the meantime existed here more than twenty sawmills for lumber and shingles, a wood wool factory, a flour mill and two tanneries. In 1903 the mining of limestone quarries.
1894, the Detroit & Mackinac Railway was established which recorded the route from Bay City to Alpena (formerly Bay City & Alpena Railway).
Many of the industrial plants closed again, but the wood and cement industry still exists. Today, the Alpena Regional Medical Center is the largest employer in the city. The Alpena County Regional Airport ( IATA code KAPN ) is located west of the city.
Personalities
- Leon Czolgosz (1873-1901), committed suicide in 1901 a deadly assassination of President William McKinley, who was born in Alpena
- William Comstock (1877-1949), politician, 1933-1935 Governor of Michigan, born in Alpena
- Frank D. Scott (1878-1951), politician in the Republican Party, 1915-1927 Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives
- Stanley border (1950-2005), theologian and ethicist in the Baptist tradition, born in Alpena