Ypsilanti, Michigan Ypsilanti, Michigan City of Ypsilanti Images from top to bottom, left to right: Ypsilanti Water Tower, Depot Town/Sidetrack Bar & Grill, Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum, Michigan Firehouse Museum, and Eastern Michigan University's Starkweather Hall Images from top to bottom, left to right: Ypsilanti Water Tower, Depot Town/Sidetrack Bar & Grill, Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum, Michigan Firehouse Museum, and Eastern Michigan University's Starkweather Hall Flag of Ypsilanti, Michigan Washtenaw County Michigan Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Ypsilanti Highlighted.svg Ypsilanti (/ ps l nti/ ip-s -lan-tee; often mispronounced / j ps l nti/ yip-s -lan-tee), generally shortened to Ypsi, is a town/city in Washtenaw County in the U.S.
State of Michigan, perhaps best known as the home of Eastern Michigan University.
The town/city is bounded to the north by Superior Township and on the west, south, and east by Ypsilanti Township.
Ypsilanti is positioned 6 miles (10 km) east of Ann Arbor and about 18 miles (29 km) west of the Detroit town/city limits.
The geographic grid center of Ypsilanti is the intersection of the Huron River and Michigan Avenue, the latter of which joins downtown Detroit, Michigan with Chicago, Illinois, and through Ypsilanti is partially concurrent with U.S.
Bust of Demetrios Ypsilantis at the Ypsilanti Water Tower A separate improve a short distance away on the west side of the river was established in 1825 under the name "Ypsilanti", after Demetrios Ypsilantis, a hero in the Greek War of Independence. Woodruff's Grove changed its name to Ypsilanti in 1829, the year its namesake effectively won the Greek war, and the two communities eventually consolidated .
A bust of Demetrios Ypsilantis by Greek sculptor Christopher Nastos stands between a Greek and a US flag at the base of the landmark Ypsilanti Water Tower.
It was in Ypsilanti that Preston Tucker (whose family owned the Ypsilanti Machine Tool Company) designed and assembled the prototypes for his Tucker '48.
The last Kaiser car made in Ypsilanti rolled off the assembly line in 1953, when the business consolidated with Willys-Overland and moved manufacturing to Toledo, Ohio.
Statue of Harriet Tubman in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
In the early 1970s, along with neighboring town/city of Ann Arbor, the people reduced the penalty for the use and sale of marijuana to $5 (the Ypsilanti Marijuana Initiative; see also the Human Rights Party).
When Ypsilanti prosecuted a man possessing 100 pounds (45 kg) of cannabis under state law, the defense argued he should have been charged under Ypsilanti's ordinance.
The trial judge declared the ordinance's requirement that Ypsilanti prosecute only under town/city law unenforceable.
Later, Ypsilanti City Council, using its power of codification, deleted the ordinance. In 1979, Faz Husain was propel to the Ypsilanti town/city council, the first Muslim and the first native of India to win propel office in Michigan.
In the 1990s Ypsilanti became the first town/city in Michigan to pass a living wage ordinance.
On July 23, 2007, Governor Jennifer Granholm announced that Ypsilanti, along with the metros/cities of Caro and Clio, was chosen by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) to take part in the Blueprints for Michigan's Downtowns program.
The award provides for an economic evolution consultant to assist Ypsilanti in developing a expansion and job creation strategy for the downtown area. 1827 Ypsilanti Township organized 1832 June 19, Woodruff's Grove re-organized and incorporated as the Village of Ypsilanti 1849 Eastern Michigan University established as Michigan State Normal School 1858 February 4, the Village of Ypsilanti reincorporated as a town/city 1890 Michigan's first interurban, the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway, begins service 1890 The Ypsilanti Water Tower is instead of 1967 Ypsilanti resident John Norman Collins is suspected of being the perpetrator of the Michigan murders, a series of murders of coeds at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.52 square miles (11.71 km2), of which 4.33 square miles (11.21 km2) is territory and 0.19 square miles (0.49 km2) is water. The Huron River flows through both the City of Ypsilanti and the Charter Township of Ypsilanti.
Ypsilanti is positioned at 42.24 N 83.62 W, in the reaches of the Detroit/Windsor urbane area.
Suburban evolution between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, via Washtenaw Avenue and Packard Road, has been unbroken since the late 1960s.
Downtown Ypsilanti and the encircling neighborhoods are the site of many historical homes, including kit homes by companies like Aladdin and Sears.
Because a large number of inhabitants or their ancestors migrated from Appalachia, certain neighborhoods (particularly on the far east side of the town/city and into Ypsilanti Township) are sometimes called "Ypsitucky." In 2008, the copy was raised after a dinner being held in Ann Arbor to honor Harriette Arnow was described as an "Ypsitucky Supper" in some of the event organizer's media releases. In 2009, planning began for the "Ypsitucky Jamboree," a new music festival celebrating bluegrass music to be held in Ypsilanti in September 2009; this resulted in objections from some region residents and some members of the City Council, dominant to renaming the event as simply "The Jamboree." See also: Ypsilanti District Library Ypsilanti Community Schools serve inhabitants of the city, as well as parts of Ypsilanti Township and Superior Township.
Ypsilanti Public Schools and Willow Run Community Schools consolidated to form a new, united precinct on July 1, 2013.
A college town, Ypsilanti is home to Eastern Michigan University, established in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School.
Today, Eastern Michigan University has 18,000+ undergraduate and more than 4,800 graduate students. As well, Ypsilanti is home to Washtenaw Community College (WCC) sponsored off-site extension center.
Ypsilanti was also the home to the chief editing site of the Linguist List, a primary online resource for the field of linguistics.
Ypsilanti has the second biggest adjoining historic precinct in the state of Michigan, behind only the much larger town/city of Grand Rapids.
The historic precinct includes both downtown Ypsilanti, along Michigan Avenue, and the Depot Town region adjoining to Frog Island Park and Riverside Park, which features many specialty shops, bars and grills, and a farmers' market.
The Ypsilanti Water Tower, adjoining to the ground of Eastern Michigan University, holds the unique distinct ion of being the winner of the Most Phallic Building contest.
Ypsilanti District Library Ypsilanti Historical Museum (housed in a Victorian mansion assembled in 1860) Ypsilanti Water Tower (built in 1890) Ypsilanti is served by daily newspapers from Detroit.
Ypsilanti once had its own daily newspaper, the Ypsilanti Press, but that paper closed June 28, 1994, after 90 years in business. Upon closing, the Press sold its masthead, archives and subscriber list to the Ann Arbor News, which then began publishing an Ypsilanti edition.
A weekly newspaper, the Ypsilanti Courier, is presented every Thursday by Heritage Media from their Saline, MI offices.
WSDS (1480 AM), licensed to close-by Salem and a former longtime country-music station, now broadcasts Spanish-language prominent music as "La Explosiva" and has studios in Ypsilanti.
US 12 is a loop route through downtown Ypsilanti.
M-17 joins Ypsilanti with close-by Ann Arbor.
Willow Run Airport, positioned near Ypsilanti, serves a range of freight and general aviation air traffic.
Amtrak's twice daily Wolverine service from Chicago to Pontiac passes through Ypsilanti, but does not stop.
Amtrak's last passenger train stopped in Ypsilanti in 1984.
Amtrak and region leaders have said they are considering reinstating a stop at Ypsilanti, however. The Border-to-Border Trail winds through Ypsilanti, linking the town/city to Ann Arbor and (eventually) Dexter.
The Ypsilanti Water Tower and bust of Demetrios Ypsilantis.
Domino's Pizza was established in Ypsilanti in 1960 near the ground of Eastern Michigan University.
By 1963, Clara Owens established the Ypsilanti Greek Theater in Ypsilanti, Michigan for the performance of Greek theater productions.
In 1966 the Ypsilanti Greek Theater opened at the EMU Baseball field.
Since 1979, the town/city has turn into known for summer celebrations in the part of the town/city called "Depot Town", which is adjoining to both Riverside and Frog Island Parks along the banks of the Huron River.
Festivals include the annual Ypsilanti Heritage Festival, the Elvis Festival, the Orphan Car Festival, the Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival, the former Frog Island Festival, and a Latino festival.
Painter Fay Kleinman moved to Ypsilanti in the late 1980s with her husband, pianist Emanuel Levenson.
Established in 1994 through the accomplishments of the Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority and a several enhance spirited people, the Riverside boasts a 115-seat black box theater, a sizeable art loggia and some meeting rooms and bureaus.
Depot Town in Ypsilanti is also home to the Michigan Elvis - Fest every summer.
It has been said that Ypsilanti is the Brooklyn to Ann Arbor's Manhattan. Comparable to the gentrification causing many artists, poets, musicians, and hipsters to flee the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City to areas like Bushwick, Brooklyn, close-by Ann Arbor has experienced massive increases in territory value and taxes over the last a several decades.
Even with Ann Arbor's reputation in the region as a bohemian cultural center, many creative citizens have been driven out of the town/city to Ypsilanti due to these changes.
The Ypsilanti City Council declared Lee Osler's "Back To Ypsilanti" the city's official song in 1983.
Iggy Pop interval up in the Coachville trailer park, lot 963423, on Carpenter Road in Pittsfield Township (near Ypsilanti) amid his teenage years at the start of his music career.
Ypsilanti is the subject of Sufjan Stevens' song, "For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti", on his 2003 album Michigan.
A portrait of jazz guitarist Randy Napoleon, painted by his grandmother, Fay Kleinman, is part of the permanent art compilation of the Ypsilanti District Library.
Napoleon performed his first enhance gig as prestige at the age of twelve under a tent at the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival, an event sponsored by WEMU radio.
In the 2004 cartoon Superior Defender Gundam Force, in the intro for the eighth episode "A Princess, A Cake, and A Winged Knight" a character titled Shute goes onto to describe his hometown and claims it to be Ypsilanti, Michigan, shortly after he says he was "just kidding" and introduces the town/city as Neotopia.
Category:People from Ypsilanti, Michigan "How Did Michigan Cities Get Their Names? The name was later changed to Ypsilanti in 1829 with respect to Demetrius Ypsilanti.
Ypsilanti was a hero in the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, An Annotated Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture in Washtenaw County, Independent Study/Masters Thesis, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, 1989 "Governor Granholm Announces Michigan Main Street and Blueprints for Michigan's Downtowns Winners".
"Historical Population and Employment by Minor Civil Division, Southeast Michigan" (PDF).
""Ypsitucky" debate heads toward Ypsilanti City Council; town/city officials hope to resolve copy with festival promoter".
Ypsilanti MI 48198" Ypsilanti Township.
"Eastern Michigan University Website - Fast Facts".
"Conversation:Laura Bien", Michigan History, Historical Society of Michigan, p.
Our Heritage: Down by the Depot in Ypsilanti.
Ypsilanti officials to consider request, Retrieved 5-3-2011 "Ypsilanti: Native Amy Devers appears on OWN remodeling program".
"Ypsilanti Public Schools Hall of Fame Inductees".
Ypsilanti High School.
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