Area Information
Ionia is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Ionia County, Michigan, United States. Every late July (ending on the last Saturday of July and beginning 10 days previous) it hosts what may be the world's largest free-admission fair. The city is mostly within Ionia Township, with small portion extending into Easton Township and Berlin Township, but is politically autonomous of the townships.
The Grand River, (the largest river in the state), and it's tributaries, the Maple, Flat and Looking Glass, are rivers that have seen the development of the land from the days of the Chippewa, Potawatome and Ottawa Indians who lived along their banks to the coming of the first white settler in the 1830s, Samuel Dexter, who started the town of Ionia.
Here are some of the history highlights
- First settled in 1833 by settlers from New York led by Samuel Dexter, Jr.
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Platted in 1841
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Incorporated as a village in 1865
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Organized into a city in 1873
Resources
City of Ionia
Wikipedia
Other sites you may be interested in:
Thumbnail Collection of USA Water Towers
Canadian Water Towers and Standpipes
Magnetic Hills in the United States of America
The History of the Christian Fish Symbol
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