Elk Rapids began as a small port on the Grand Traverse Bay in the 1840s.

In 1903 the Traverse City, Leelanau, and Manistique Railroad began a route between Traverse City to the South and Northport to the North, stopping at Suttons Bay, as well as Hatch's Crossing, Fountain Point, Bingham, Keswick, and Omena.

Almost immediately, people began exploring the area between Manistee and Traverse City, looking for prime farmland.

On May 11, 1996, the Grand Traverse Dinner Train began year round service from the Traverse City depot to Williamsburg and to Walton Junction.

In the summer of 1873, a few years before the chief's passing, a city began on his land along Little Traverse Bay.

Johns eventually began to patronize a comics shop in Traverse City, recalling that the first new comics he bought were Crisis on Infinite Earth # 3 or 4 and Flash # 348 or 349, as the latter was his favorite character.

Around 1900, wealthy individuals from Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and other Midwestern industrial centers began to visit Leland and build summer cottages, arriving by Lake Michigan passenger steamer or by Lake Leelanau steamer from the railhead near Traverse City.

In 2000, it began offering a separate news service on 91. 5 FM in Traverse City.

It was revitalized before being used during the Traverse City Film Festival which began in July 2005.

In 1998, the station began to provide promotional and advertising services for cable-only WB affiliate " WBVC " which was based at WGTU's original studios on East Front Street in Downtown Traverse City.

On December 28, 2007, the station began broadcasting out of their Traverse City, Michigan studios.

The vehicle assembly part of the Spring Hill plant was idled in late 2009 when production of the Traverse was moved to Lansing, Michigan, while production of power trains and metal stamping continued.

The 2007 Outlook and GMC Acadia went into production in late 2006, followed by the 2008 Enclave in mid-2007, and the 2009 Chevrolet Traverse in mid-2008.

Although production ceased, the second generation body style was still being produced in Brazil until 2011, with the introduction of the Chevrolet Traverse, or Grand Blazer in Latin America.

" Radio Double C " also had Northern Michigan's earliest avante-garde modern rock programming late at night with the " Pen Ultimate " radio show hosted by Al Vasquez (" Alan White ") and Carolyn Beaudette, and was the home of Traverse City's first " real " production agency for radio commercials.

In Autumn 2008, McIntyre composed the soundtrack for the Traverse Theatre Company production of Midsummer play with songs by David Greig.

Regular intercity passenger train service ended on September 1, 1962 after the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) discontinued Traverse City, Michigan-Charlevoix-Petoskey, Michigan service.

The Traverse City Cohos will begin play in the Midwest Junior Hockey League in September 2012.

In September 2007, Mark Holley, an underwater archeologist with the Grand Traverse Bay Underwater Preserve Council who teaches at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, said that they might have discovered a boulder high x long ) with a prehistoric carving in the Grand Traverse Bay.

Only four teams have won more than one championship: Springfield in 1996 and 1998, Johnstown in 1995 ( as the Steal ) and in 2000 ( as the Johnnies ), Richmond ( now Traverse City ) in 2001 and 2002, and Windy City in 2007 and 2008.

The plant reopened in February 2008 and became the assembly point for the new Chevrolet Traverse.

As reported in the Traverse City Record Eagle, in a unique program, the lighthouse society sought volunteers to work and live in the Mission Point Light during 2008.

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The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

The same forces also performed the work at the Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City, Michigan in August 2009.

During a road trip to Traverse City, MI in 2006, former Cy Young winner Doug Drabek served as manager while Wilson was tending to things at his Texas home.

" The area of Scott County, as well as much of southern Minnesota, was opened for settlement by two treaties signed at Mendota and Traverse des Sioux, in 1851 and 1853.

The county was the site of historical events at Mendota that defined the state's future, including providing materials for the construction of Fort Snelling across the river and the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux which ceded land from the native Dakota nation for the Minnesota Territory.

Grand Traverse County predominantly supports the Republican Party, particularly at the federal level.

The Emmet County Board of Supervisors protested that the county seat had already been established at Little Traverse, and in 1861, the act was repealed as unconstitutional.

The name was an analog to the village of Northport on the opposite side of the Grand Traverse Bay, but the bay shore project was abandoned and the village developed at the northern end of Torch Lake.

* travels around the north side of Little Traverse Bay, through downtown Harbor Springs, and then to a terminus at Cross Village.

Part of Northern Michigan, Petoskey is on the southeast shore of the Little Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Bear River.

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The historic Little Traverse Lighthouse is located at the tip of the Harbor Point peninsula.

* Acme is an unincorporated community in the township, situated at the junction of US 31 and M-72 on the East Arm of the Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan.

It is about east of Traverse City at.

A replica of the Old Mission for which the peninsula is named. The settlement at Old Mission was the first community founded by Europeans in the Grand Traverse Bay region.

The post office was known at this time as Grand Traverse, being the only official post office in the Grand Traverse Bay region, indeed the only one between Mackinaw City and Croton.

The U. S. post office in consultation with Mr. A. T. Lay, a founder of Traverse City, decided to rename the post office at Dougherty's settlement to " Old Mission " and named the post office at the Boardman River " Traverse City.