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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Official Website Kalamazoo is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. Originally known as Bronson (after founder Titus Bronson) in the township of Arcadia, the names of both the city and the township were changed to "Kalamazoo" in 1836 and 1837, respectively. The Kalamazoo name comes from a Potawatomi w...
Riverside Cemetery - Kalamazoo - Michigan - USA
Wikipedia Western Michigan University (WMU) is a public research university located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1903 by Dwight B. Waldo, and as of the Fall 2014 semester, its enrollment is 23,914. WMU has one of the largest aviation programs in the United States, and it is the site of the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies. The univ...
Kalamazoo College is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Founded in 1833 by Baptist ministers as the Michigan and Huron Institute, Kalamazoo is the oldest private college in the U.S. state of Michigan. From 1840 to 1850, the institute operated as the Kalamazoo Branch of the University of Michigan. After receiving its charter from the state in 1855, the institute changed its n...
One of Kalamazoo’s oldest and most impressive cemeteries is Mountain Home Cemetery, located on the north side of West Main Street just west of Douglas Avenue. The trustees of Mountain Home Cemetery, including Isaac Moffat, Luther H. Trask, Nathaniel A. Balch, Epaphroditus Ransom, etc., were incorporated into an official entity in 1849. The grounds for the cemetery were purchased from Clark and ...
The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA) is a non-profit art museum and school in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. In 1924, members of the Kalamazoo Chapter of the American Federation of Arts established an art center "to further the development of interest and education in and of regard and appreciation for the various arts." The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts current building was unve...