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Battle Creek, Michigan. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Calhoun. Associated ZIP codes: 49014, 49015, 49016, 49017, 49018, 49037.
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Demolition underway on long-closed U.S. Bank parking ramp
The West Michigan Street ramp closed in 2019 after structural concerns surfaced.
Nov 6, 2026Open source
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Battle Creek is in Calhoun County, Michigan.
Region: Michigan
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49014, 49015, 49016, 49017, 49018, 49037
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Demolition underway on long-closed U.S. Bank parking ramp
The West Michigan Street ramp closed in 2019 after structural concerns surfaced.
Nov 6, 2026Open source
Michigan election results: Governor, Senate, US House, proposals, more
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Nov 6, 2026Open source
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Around 1774 the Potawatomi and Ottawa formed a joint village near the future Battle Creek. After the Potawatomi were removed to a reservation, permanent European settlement began about 1831, as migration from New York and New England grew after the Erie Canal opened, and most settlers chose the fertile Goguac Prairie. A post office opened in 1832 under Postmaster Pollodore Hudson, the first school met in a log house around 1833, and Asa Langley and others built the first sawmill in 1837. Simon Carr started a brickworks in 1840 that ran until 1903, and the township was created in 1839.
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Before the Civil War, Battle Creek was a major stop on the Underground Railroad for people escaping slavery to Michigan and Canada, and the abolitionist Sojourner Truth made her home there. The city was central to the early Seventh-day Adventist Church, which held a founding convention there in 1863 and built its first hospital, college and publishing house in the city. After the hospital and publishing office burned in 1902, the church spread its institutions elsewhere, but its first church, rebuilt in the 1920s, is still in use. The heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, arrested for crossing state lines with his white wife, was held in Battle Creek and spent a night at the home of John Patterson, the city's first Black police officer. Battle Creek is nicknamed Cereal City as the home of the W.K. Kellogg company and the birthplace of Post Consumer Brands. Sources Wikipedia: Battle Creek, Michigan
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42.3053000, -85.1389000
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