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Traverse City
Michigan, United States
Traverse City, city, seat (1851) of Grand Traverse county, northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. It is located at the southern end of Grand Traverse Bay (West Arm), an embayment of Lake Michigan. Settled in 1847 and named for the bay, it developed from a timber town into one of the nation’s chief cherry-processing markets and the hub of a vast year-round resort area. Light manufacturing (auto parts, tools, metal products) augments its economy. A lighthouse at the tip of the 16-mile- (26-km-) long Old Mission Peninsula, which juts northward into Grand Traverse Bay from the city, is almost exactly ...(100 of 165 words)