Plymouth, Michigan Plymouth, Michigan City of Plymouth Plymouth is a town/city in Wayne County in the U.S.
The populace was 9,132 at the 2010 census. The City of Plymouth is landlocked, being entirely surrounded by the Charter Township of Plymouth. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.22 square miles (5.75 km2), of which 2.21 square miles (5.72 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. It is positioned 15.6 miles (25.1 km) east of Ann Arbor and 26.3 miles (42.3 km) west of Detroit, just south of the M-14 highway and west of Interstate 275.
The town/city of Plymouth has a range of shops and restaurants encircling Kellogg Park, the de facto center of town.
It also organizes primary improve affairs such as the prominent Fall Festival, Ice Sculpture Spectacular and the Art in the Park, and access to the Plymouth-Canton school district, with a unique complex composed of three high schools positioned on one 305-acre (1.23 km2) ground and is now one of the highest populated high school campuses in the nation with close to 6500 students and over 800 faculty members.
The Plymouth Ice Spectacular, the biggest and earliest ice carving festival in North America, is held every year in Plymouth in late January.
Founded in 1982 by then 25-year-old Scott Lorenz, the weekend-long event draws an average of 500,000 citizens to Plymouth each year and has helped establish ice carving as a world-class competing event. Since 2008, Plymouth has been home to the Green Street Fair, held over a weekend each May.
Plymouth's "Art in the Park" is Michigan's second biggest art fair.
Visitors have appreciateed Plymouth Art in the Park since its inaugural event in 1980.
Plymouth Art in the Park, founded, directed and managed by mother and daughter team Dianne Quinn and Raychel Rork, jubilated its 33rd show in 2012.
Other affairs include Plymouth's "Music in the Air", held every Friday evening June through September, beginning at approximately 7:00 pm, highlighting a number of bands performing a wide range of music.
The Historic Old Village hosts affairs such as "Bumpers Bikes and Bands", the "Old Village Restaurant Crawl", and the family-friendly "Haunted Halloween" on Liberty Street.
The Old Village is positioned on Plymouth's north side and borders Hines Park.
Plymouth was first settled in 1825, incorporated as a village in 1867 and became a town/city in 1932.
The first pioneer to come to what is now known as Plymouth, Michigan, were Keziah (Benjamin) and William Starkweather.
The Starkweather clan had lived in Preston at least as early as 1694, as stated to records of a t in which Captain John Masons gave territory to Robert Starkweather, William's grandfather.
William, ninth born of 11 siblings, and his wife Keziah brought their firstborn son Albert to the region and assembled the first home in Plymouth, at what is now the southwest corner of Main Street and Ann Arbor Trail.
George Anson Starkweather, William's second-born, was the first non-Native American born inside the boundaries of what is now known as the town/city of Plymouth.
His father William died at 44 years of age, from typhoid fever, and his mother Keziah two years later, leaving their eldest son George at 20 years of age.
The history section of the City of Plymouth website indicates that The City of Plymouth was settled by Luther Lincoln on April 2, 1825, though as stated to the United States Department of the interior Bureau of Land Management, in a letter from Mr William H.
One was in town 1 south, range 8 east, for an 80-acre (320,000 m2) parcel the north east quarter of the Western half of section 33, and an additional 80-acre (320,000 m2) parcel in Town 1 South, Range 9 east, which is roughly the core of the town/city of present-day Wayne.
Lincoln's former 80-acre (320,000 m2) parcel ranged both inside and outside of the present boundaries of the City of Plymouth.
The territory was roughly bounded on the west side by present-day Mill Street, extended east to a border near or at the present Riverside park, on the north by the CSX Tracks, and on the south approximately by an east west line drawn at the point where Mill Street (Lilley road) intersects with Union street near where the entrance of Riverside Park is.
Therefore, since Starkweather's home was always inside town/city Limits, and since Lincoln's home and place of business, his saw mill, which was assembled along the Rouge River, were always outside the town/city limits of Plymouth, William, who brought his entire family with him and assembled a lean to at the Panera site as the first home, was the first settler inside town/city limits.
In 1830, William purchased an 80-acre (320,000 m2) parcel of territory on Plymouth Road, outside of the present Plymouth town/city limits, where the Unisys plant now stands.
William and Keziah then sold their territory in downtown Plymouth and in 1831 purchased an 80-acre (320,000 m2) parcel of territory in what was then called "North Village" (now called "The Historic Old Village") from John Norris Jr, whom originally purchased the tract from the federal Government.
He also jointly with David Rider purchased an 80-acre (320,000 m2) tract of Land in Livonia, on Plymouth Road, the territory now occupied by the Ford Motor Company Livonia Transmission Plant.
The territory in Old Village was then passed to William's son, George A Starkweather.
George's wife, Lydia Amelia Heywood, was the adopted daughter of Mary Davis, of Plymouth.
The first actual assembly on the entire (east west) D & H line began in Plymouth on February 6, 1867, at a ceremony where a cherry wood tie was fashioned on the spot and laid on the center line of the road, at Shearers Cut.
The Detroit and Howell Railroad was consolidated into the Detroit, Howell and Lansing Railroad, and later consolidated into the Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad.
As of 2011, over Plymouth's 144-year history in Michigan barns ing, the east west line through Plymouth had been directed under nine different names.
The history section of the City of Plymouth, MI web site states that the barns station in Plymouth, was assembled by the "Pere Marquette Railroad" in 1871.
Although the "Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad", was chartered in 1857, PM did not take over operations of the lines through plymouth, nor did it build anything along the lines, until amid or after 1900, with the consolidation of three barns lines the "Flint and Pere Marquette", the "Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western", and the "Chicago and West Michigan" Railways.
The north south rail line through Plymouth was assembled by the Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railway.
In 1900, both lines (north south and east west) that ran through Plymouth, came under ownership of the newly formed Pere Marquette stockyards as stated above.
The first ever steam locomotive that pulled into Plymouth, came from Wayne, Michigan on the north south line, on April 27, 1871, and was known as the Grand "Excursion" by rail.
The origin for this first steam locomotive that came to Plymouth, comes from Celestia Young's diary entry of that date, in which she states, "A lovely showery day.
I tried to see freshwater working out of doors, Grand 'Excursion' to Plymouth by rail this afternoon Wayne Brass Band & Star Spangled-Banners." Celestia was the sister in law of Jehial Davis (Step Father to George Starkweather's wife Lydia Amelia), and was a close family friend of the Starkweather family, whom for a time was a homekeeper for George A Starkweather.
Celestia was known as "Aunt Celestia", to the grand kids of George, and was as a sister, to George Starkweather's wife Amelia.
He served as a member of the State Legislature in 1854, had a several terms as Township Supervisor, 16 years as Justice of the Peace, and was Plymouth Village President in 1898.
George Starkweather's grandson, Karl Hillmer Starkweather (who changed his name from Karl Starkweather Hillmer), was a respected and lifelong Plymouth resident and small-town historian, and Ford Motor Company employee at the Wilcox Lake Tap Plant in which he was shop steward.
Notable streets in Plymouth are titled after some Starkweather family members, including Blanche (after Blanche Starkweather, daughter of George Starkweather), Karmada (after the grandchildren of George Starkweather Karl, Max and Davis), Davis after Davis B Hillmer youngest grandson of George Starkweather, Starkweather (formerly Oak Street), Amelia (after Lydia Amelia Heywood Davis -Starkweather) George Starkweather's wife, and Rose after Rose Hillmer, eldest grand daughter of George Starkweather.
Starkweather Elementary School was titled after George Anson Starkweather of Plymouth, which was converted to an adult education center.
It was the first elementary school assembled in Plymouth largely through the accomplishments of grandson Karl Starkweather, who promoted the need for a ward school in Plymouth to small-town residents.
Starkweather Hillmer), were charter members of the Plymouth Historical Society.
Daisy Manufacturing Company, now Daisy Outdoor Products, started in 1882 in Plymouth as the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company.
In 1886 Plymouth inventor Clarence Hamilton introduced a new idea to the windmill company.
Much to the dismay of Plymouth residents, Daisy moved its corporate offices and manufacturing facilities from Plymouth to Rogers, Arkansas in 1958.
In 2009 Plymouth Township was titled 28th Best Place to Live in the United States by CNN Money Magazine. 21.5% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 5.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 31.8% were from 25 to 44; 27% were from 45 to 64; and 14% were 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 18.7% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 37.5% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 1.9% of families and 3.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 3.6% of those age 65 or over.
In 1995 Plymouth town/city and Plymouth Township merged their fire departments with the township controlling fire services.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Plymouth, Michigan "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Plymouth city, Michigan".
"Plymouth Ice Festival".
"Plymouth Art in the Park".
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