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| • | Allegan is a city in the U.S state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 4,838. It is the county seat of Allegan County6. The city lies within Allegan Township, but is politically independent.
Allegan was named by Michigan historian Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1837 to sound like a Native American word. Land was purchased from government to form the downtown business district; village organization came in 1838 with city incorporation authorized in 1907.
Allegan is located in the south-central portion of the county. To the west and northwest is the Allegan State Game Area for which the city is considered a gateway. In all other directions Allegan is surrounded by farmland.
The largest employer is the L. Perrigo Company, the largest maker of private label over-the-counter pharmaceuticals in the United States. The Perrigo company was founded here in 1887. In 2004 it employed 3,500 people in the United States, England and Mexico. Allegan is home to a longstanding manufacturing base of smaller companies; the City of Allegan lost a major UAW-organized Rockwell manufacturing plant in the early 80s. The city has a small general aviation airport with a paved runway. Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan are larger metropolitan points of access to Allegan County; generally access by commercial airlines would require a trip from (or to) Grand Rapids.
Allegan's dense forests and river geography served as a source of water power, trade routes for steamboats and timber production. Once cleared, Allegan became a center for business, industry and expansive farmland.
A longtime industrial town, Allegan's downtown waterfront fell into disrepair and environmental pollution by the late 1960s and early 1970s. The potential for loss of an aging iron bridge would cause the citizenry of Allegan to focus on community history, en masse, for an event that solidified Allegan's view toward community architectural preservation. The Second Street Bridge in Allegan is a whipple-trough truss bridge erected by the King Iron Bridge Company (Cleveland, Ohio) in 1886.
Source: [wikipedia: allegan, michigan]
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