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The Potawatami, an Algonquian tribe of North America closely related to the Ojibwa and Ottawa, have split away from the other tribes by 1500 and settled in the western part of lower Michigan.
Marquette and his companions are probably the first Europeans to glimpse the mouth of the Kalamazoo in 1675 as they return from Illinois.
The Kalamazoo River basin is at this time inhabited primarily by members of Potawatomi tribes.
Kalamazoo College is founded in 1833 by a group of Baptist ministers as the Michigan and Huron Institute.
Its charter is granted on April 22, 1833, the first school chartered by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan.
Instruction at the Institute will begin in fall 1836.
The area on which the modern city of Kalamazoo stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium.
Evidence of their early residency remains in the form of a small mound in downtown's Bronson Park.
The Hopewell civilization began to decline after the eighth century and was replaced by other groups.
The Potawatomi culture lived in the area when the first European explorers arrived.
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, passed just southeast of the present city of Kalamazoo in late March 1680.
The first Europeans to reside in the area were itinerant fur traders in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
There are records of several traders wintering in the area, and by the 1820s at least one trading post had been established.
During the War of 1812, the British established a smithy and a prison camp in the area.
The 1821 Treaty of Chicago ceded the territory south of the Grand River to the United States federal government.
However, the area around present-day Kalamazoo was reserved as the village of Potawatomi Chief Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish.
Six years later, as a result of the 1827 Treaty of St. Joseph, the tract that became the city of Kalamazoo was also ceded.
In 1829, Titus Bronson, originally from Connecticut, became the first white settler to build a cabin within the present city limits of Kalamazoo.
He platted the town in 1831 and named it the village of Bronson—not to be confused with the much smaller Bronson, Michigan, about fifty miles (eighty kilometers) to the south-southeast of Kalamazoo.
Bronson, frequently described as "eccentric" and argumentative, was later run out of town.
The village will be renamed Kalamazoo in 1836, due in part to Bronson's being fined for stealing a cherry tree.
Today, a hospital and a downtown park, among other things, are named for Bronson.
Kalamazoo will be legally incorporated as a village in 1838 and as a city in 1883.
Its charter is granted on April 22, 1833, the first school chartered by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan.
Instruction at the Institute will begin in fall 1836.
The area on which the modern city of Kalamazoo stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium.
Evidence of their early residency remains in the form of a small mound in downtown's Bronson Park.
The Hopewell civilization began to decline after the eighth century and was replaced by other groups.
The Potawatomi culture lived in the area when the first European explorers arrived.
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, passed just southeast of the present city of Kalamazoo in late March 1680.
The first Europeans to reside in the area were itinerant fur traders in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
There are records of several traders wintering in the area, and by the 1820s at least one trading post had been established.
During the War of 1812, the British established a smithy and a prison camp in the area.
The 1821 Treaty of Chicago ceded the territory south of the Grand River to the United States federal government.
However, the area around present-day Kalamazoo was reserved as the village of Potawatomi Chief Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish.
Six years later, as a result of the 1827 Treaty of St. Joseph, the tract that became the city of Kalamazoo was also ceded.
In 1829, Titus Bronson, originally from Connecticut, became the first white settler to build a cabin within the present city limits of Kalamazoo.
He platted the town in 1831 and named it the village of Bronson—not to be confused with the much smaller Bronson, Michigan, about fifty miles (eighty kilometers) to the south-southeast of Kalamazoo.
Bronson, frequently described as "eccentric" and argumentative, was later run out of town.
The village will be renamed Kalamazoo in 1836, due in part to Bronson's being fined for stealing a cherry tree.
Today, a hospital and a downtown park, among other things, are named for Bronson.
Kalamazoo will be legally incorporated as a village in 1838 and as a city in 1883.