Traverse City, Michigan Traverse City, Michigan City of Traverse City Official logo of Traverse City, Michigan Nickname(s): Traverse, "T.C.", The Cherry Capital (of the World), Cherryland, The Coast Guard City, Queen City (of the North) Location of Traverse City inside Grand Traverse County, Michigan Location of Traverse City inside Grand Traverse County, Michigan Traverse City, Michigan is positioned in the US Traverse City, Michigan - Traverse City, Michigan Counties Grand Traverse, Leelanau Traverse City (/ tr v rs s ti/ or small-town / tr v r.s ti/) is a town/city in the U.S.
It is the governmental center of county of Grand Traverse County, although a small portion extends into Leelanau County.
It is the biggest city in the 21-county Northern Michigan region.
The populace was 14,674 at the 2010 census, with 143,372 in the Traverse City micropolitan area.
The Traverse City region is the biggest producer of tart cherries in the United States. Near the time of cherry harvest, the town/city hosts the annual seven-day National Cherry Festival in the first full week of July, attracting approximately 500,000 visitors annually. The encircling countryside also produces grapes, and is one of the centers of wine manufacturing in the Midwest. Tourism, both summer and winter, is another key industry.
The Traverse City region features varied natural attractions, including contaminating beaches, vineyards, a National Lakeshore, downhill skiing areas, and various forests. In 2009, Trip - Advisor titled Traverse City the number two small town travel destination in the United States. In 2012, the town/city was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U.S., by U.S.
11.6 Grand Traverse Commons Traverse City is titled after the Grand Traverse Bay, which the town/city heads.
Downtown Traverse City as viewed from West Grand Traverse Bay As of 1853, the only operating postal service in the Grand Traverse Bay region was the one positioned at Old Mission, which was then known as "Grand Traverse".
As the newer settlement had turn into known as "Grand Traverse City", Lay proposed this name for its postal service, but the Post Office Department clerk suggested dropping the "Grand" from the name, as to limit confusion between this new office and the one at close-by Old Mission.
Lay agreed to the name "Traverse City" for the postal service, and the village took on this name.
In December 1872, rail service appeared in Traverse City via a Traverse City Rail Road Company spur from the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad line at Walton Junction.
Its locale near the 45th alongside is tempered by the strong and moderating effects of Lake Michigan and Grand Traverse Bay, which have a especially noteworthy effect on the peninsulas that branch north of the city.
Lake Michigan especially, but also Grand Traverse Bay, greatly impact the area's diverse coastal weather patterns, which occasionally consist of sudden and/or large amounts of rain amid the cyclicly active periods.
Traverse City's record high temperature is 105 F (41 C), recorded in 1936, and its low temperature is 33 F ( 36 C), recorded on February 17, 1979.
Climate data for Traverse City Airport, Michigan (1981-2010 normals, extremes 1896) Boardman River between downtown Traverse City and Grand Traverse Bay Traverse City is a part of the greater Northern Michigan region.
The town/city is the chief inland port of the Grand Traverse Bay a long, natural harbor separated from the waters of Lake Michigan by the Leelanau Peninsula, and divided longitudinally almost evenly by a narrow peninsula of tiered hillsides and farmland called Old Mission Peninsula.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.66 square miles (22.43 km2), of which, 8.33 square miles (21.57 km2) of it is territory and 0.33 square miles (0.85 km2) is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 20.3% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
Traverse City is a home rule charter town/city under the Home Rule Cities Act, incorporated on May 18, 1895.
The commission appoints a town/city manager who serves as chief executive for town/city operations.
The Traverse City Area Public Schools is the major school precinct of Traverse City.
It used to have a school in Leelanau County, but now it is only in Grand Traverse County.
Additionally, Traverse City has a several academies, Lutheran and Christian schools, charter schools, and Montessori schools.
Traverse Bay Area Career-Tech Center Traverse City Central High School Traverse City Christian High School Traverse City High School (alternative school) Grand Traverse Academy (a charter school) Traverse City West Senior High (established 1997 by a division of Traverse City Central) Interlochen Arts Academy - Fine arts boarding and day school, positioned 20 minutes outside of Traverse City Traverse Bay Christian School Tourists crowd Clinch Park Beach amid summer months in Traverse City Most of Traverse City's economy is based on tourism. As part of the 2011 tourism advertising campaign the Traverse City Visitors Bureau, Traverse City Cherry Capital Airport and small-town businesses sponsored a video to be played on all Delta flights in the month of June 2011. The National Cherry Festival, usually in the first week of July, tends to host hundreds of thousands of tourists and locals to the area.
Traverse City has many nicknames.
And "The Coast Guard City" are used by citizens out of state, and "Queen City" is used by many suburb-dwellers. The Traverse City Record-Eagle is one of northwest lower Michigan's daily newspapers.
It is the journal of record for Grand Traverse County.
Other small-town publications have encompassed Traverse (a monthly county-wide magazine), NM3 Magazine (a small-town lifestyle and entertainment publication, no longer presented), Grand Traverse Insider (a small-town weekly improve newspaper), Northern Express Weekly, Traverse City Business News, Edible Grande Traverse periodical dedicated to the food, farms and chefs of the area, and Grand Traverse Woman Magazine.
At least seven nationwide magazines were presented in Traverse City, including Thirdeye Magazine.
Village Press is based in Traverse City; it prints the Home Shop Machinist, Live Steam and Outdoor Railroading, Machinists' Workshop, Just Labs, Pointing Dog Journal, Retriever Journal and Twin and Turbine magazines.
Traverse City is also the home of Arbutus Press, one of the dominant Michigan publishers for county-wide non-fiction.
The business has presented many books including four books chose by the Library of Michigan as Michigan Notable Books: Historic Cottages of Mackinac Island (awarded in 2002), Asylum for the Insane: History of Kalamazoo State Hospital (awarded in 2009), Vintage Views Along the West Michigan Pike (awarded in 2012), and Fishtown (awarded in 2013).
Traverse City is the biggest city in the Traverse City-Cadillac-Sault Ste.
Traverse City has two tv stations licensed directly to the city: No longer in operation in Traverse City (as of June 2009) Stations licensed to close-by Cadillac are considered small-town to Traverse City: Cable tv service is provided inside Traverse City and many outlying communities by Charter Communications.
Traverse City is the home of Northern Michigan talk airways broadcast WTCM News/Talk 580 AM.
Other talk stations available in the Traverse City region include WJML, WMKT, WSRT, and WLDR.
Traverse City has three theological airways broadcasts: W201 - CM (a translator at 88.1) and WLJN AM/FM 89.9 FM and 1400 AM.
The station went on the air in 1966 with owner Roderick Maxson serving the Grand Traverse region and encircling counties.
They have been the sponsor for a several major affairs in Traverse City, including The Beach Bum Games, Horses by the Bay, the Make-A-Wish Motorcycle Tour, and the Traverse City Easter Egg Hunt.
Traverse City State Park The National Cherry Festival, held amid the first full week of July every year, is a draw for tourists to Traverse City.
It is estimated that the Grand Traverse region produces up to 360,000,000 pounds (163,000,000 kg) of cherries annually.
The Traverse City State Park, with about 250 campsites, is positioned three miles (4.8 km) east of downtown on 47 acres (19 ha) including a quarter mile beach on the East Bay arm of Grand Traverse Bay.
The Boardman River Nature Center is the interpretive center and management command posts for the Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve, a 505-acre small-town park and natural area.
The sandy soil is conducive to viticulture, and there are over 50 wineries in the Traverse City area. Most offer no-charge wine tasting.
Traverse town/city is positioned at the base of the Old Mission Peninsula wine region.
Traverse City's central company precinct is positioned along Front Street downtown.
Another primary shopping precinct is on US 31 southwest of town, where a several big box stores are located, as well as a shopping malls, the Grand Traverse Mall, anchored by Target, JCPenney, Macy's.
Previously, the highway corridor also homed the Traverse City Premium Outlets.
Traverse City is home to a experienced baseball team and a semi-professional football team.
The Traverse City Beach Bums are a member of the autonomous Frontier League and play their home games at Wuerfel Park in close-by Blair Township.
Their inaugural season in Traverse City was 2006.
Starting in 2005 Traverse City was host to the Traverse City North Stars a Junior "A" level hockey club (member of the North American Hockey League); they played at the Centre I.C.E.
Shortly after that the former owner of the North Stars, Chad Fournier, announced he would be bringing a new junior hockey team to Traverse City.
The Traverse City Cohos began play in the Midwest Junior Hockey League in September 2012.
Traverse City also hosts the training camp for the Detroit Red Wings NHL hockey team as well as the Traverse City Prospects Tournament, an annual tournament displaying young NHL prospects from select NHL teams.
The Traverse City Wolves are a semi-professional football team who played their home games at Thirlby Field.
The City Opera House, positioned in downtown Traverse City features plays, movies, and other performances.
The Traverse Symphony Orchestra (TSO), established in 1952 by improve leader Elnora Milliken as the Northwestern Michigan Symphony Orchestra, has grown from a small group of volunteer musicians to a paid experienced orchestra of 60 contracted members.
There are eleven recognized Michigan historical markers in the Traverse City area. They are: Grand Traverse Bay Grand Traverse County Courthouse Traverse City State Hospital Traverse City was titled by USA Today among the Top Ten Places for Local Wine. There are seven wineries on the Old Mission Peninsula and 21 wineries on the Leelanau Peninsula, both just a several minutes drive from downtown Traverse City.
The two arms of Grand Traverse Bay furnish the ideal maritime climate and the rich glacial soil does the rest.
Northern Michigan specializes in burgeoning white grapes and is known for its Rieslings which expanded well in the summer months and late fall which Traverse City is known for.
The wineries along the Old Mission Peninsula are Black Star Farms, 2 Lads Winery, Bowers Harbor Vineyards, Brys Estate Vineyard & Winery, Chateau Chantal Winery And Inn, Chateau Grand Traverse, and Peninsula Cellars.
The wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula are Black Star Farms, Leelenau Cellars, Silver Leaf Vineyard and Winery, Gill's Pier Vineyard and Winery, Raftshol Vineyards, Circa Estate Winery, Forty-Five North Vineyard and Winery, Good Harbor Vineyards, Chateau Fontaine, Boskydel Vineyards, L.
Mawby Vineyards, Ciccone Vineyard and Winery, Willow Vineyards, Chateau de Leelanau Vineyard and Winery, Shady Lane Cellars, Cherry Republic Winery, Longview Winery, Boathouse Winery, Verterra, Brengman Brothers, and Bel Lago Winery. Next to to the airport is Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, responsible for both maritime and land-based search and rescue operations in the northern Great Lakes region.
On April 7, 2010, the USCG designated Traverse City a Coast Guard City.
Traverse City is the second town/city in Michigan and tenth in the nation to receive this honor. A tall ship, the schooner Manitou is berthed at Traverse City, and offers passages to the public. Near Traverse City are two other tall ships, the schooner Madeline and the 55-foot (17 m) long replica of the sloop Welcome, an 18th-century British warship sloop, which was assembled for the 1976 Bicentennial of the American Revolution.
The Nauti-Cat, a 43-passenger catamaran books passages on Grand Traverse bay.
Traverse City also has a enhance transit system, the Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) which serves most of the Grand Traverse and Leelanau region.
With link services and a fixed route bus service, called the Loops, serves Traverse City and the urbanized areas of Garfield Township.
US 31 joins northward from Traverse City to Petoskey and the Mackinaw City area.
It also continues south and westerly from the town/city to Ludington, Muskegon and other points along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
The highway also continues north up Old Mission Peninsula to end at Old Mission Point in the middle of Grand Traverse Bay.
M-72 passes east west through the city, connecting west to Empire in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan and east through Kalkaska and Grayling to Harrisville on Lake Huron.
The Great Lakes Central Railroad (GLCR) provides freight rail service to the Traverse City region on track owned by the state of Michigan.
Regular intercity passenger train service ended on October 29, 1966, after the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) discontinued Grand Rapids Traverse City Bay View service.
Since then, excursion passengers trains have directed in and out of Traverse City on an irregular basis.
On May 11, 1996, the Grand Traverse Dinner Train began year round service from the Traverse City depot to Williamsburg and to Walton Junction.
Information from the City of Traverse City The Boardman Neighborhood Is the second smallest neighborhood in Traverse City.
The Central Neighborhood is in southwestern Traverse City, despite its name.
It was titled when Traverse City was smaller, as this was the Center.
The Traverse Heights Neighborhood is in southeastern Traverse City.
As the fourth biggest neighborhood in Traverse City, it stretches from Boardman Lake to Garfield Avenue.
Slabtown is the former name for Traverse City.
Grand Traverse Commons The Grand Traverse Commons are probably the most historic neighborhood in Traverse City.
The Traverse City Asylum Is here, though it is now repurposed as a small shopping center.
The Oak Park Neighborhood was formed from parts of Traverse Heights and Oakwood Neighborhoods.
The Oakwood Neighborhood is the easternmost neighborhood in the city.
It is titled after the Oakwood Cemetery, the biggest cemetery in Traverse City.
The Traverse City Civic Center is in the northwestern part of this neighborhood.
The Airport Neighborhood was originally part of Traverse Heights.
The Warehouse District is the smallest District in Traverse City.
It consists of Logan's Landing and the Grand Traverse Mall.
Traverse City is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord. The sister town/city of Traverse City is Tsuchiyama, Shiga, Japan.
Kate Botello, host of Tech - TV's The Screen Savers and Extended Play, resides in Traverse City, where she owns a web design business Representative from 1957 to 1966; the Grand Traverse County Robert P.
Bob James, jazz musician, created instrumental infamous song for TV sitcom Taxi, sampled by various hip-hop artists; resident of Traverse City Michael Moore, filmmaker, small-town resident, supporter of the renovation of the State Theatre and Traverse City Film Festival Former Traverse City State Hospital - Historical Kirkbride Building Traverse City Film Festival Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay In undivided standard French, traverse no longer has the sense of 'crossing' which is now traversee. Traverse City Record-Eagle.
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The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of Scenery and Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers.
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City of Traverse City official website Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay Clarke Historical Library, Central, Michigan University, Bibliography for Grand Traverse County Traverse City, Michigan at DMOZ Municipalities and communities of Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States
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