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Silver Beach County Park is a park located in St. Joseph, Michigan at the mouth of the St. Joseph River. It was formerly Silver Beach Amusement Park , an amusement park , which operated between 1891 and 1971.
St. Joseph, colloquially known as St. Joe, is a city and the county seat of Berrien County, Michigan. It was incorporated as a village in 1834 and as a city in 1891. [4] As of the 2020 census , the city population was 7,856. [5]
The Harbor Beach Lighthouse is a "sparkplug lighthouse" located at the end of the north breakwall entrance to the harbor of refuge on Lake Huron. [9] [10] [11] The breakwall and light were created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to protect the harbor of Harbor Beach, Michigan , which is the largest man-made freshwater harbor in the ...
The completion in 1855 of the first ship canal and locks at Sault Ste. Marie (later known as the Soo Locks) enabled much larger ships to ply the St. Marys River. To accommodate them and to ease navigation, the American government dredged and dynamited limestone from the Munuscong Channel between Neebish and St. Joseph islands in 1856 and 1905.
St. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,993 at the 2020 census . [3] The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph .
St. Joseph County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan, on the central southern border with Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 60,939. [2] The county seat is Centreville .
The St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in Michigan at the entrance to the St. Joseph River on Lake Michigan. The station was built in 1832 with the current lights built in 1906 and 1907; [1] [4] they were decommissioned in 2005.
Turns inland to skirt the St. Joseph/Benton Harbor urban area. Runs east to Kalamazoo. Business Loop 94 passes through downtown Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. BL I-94 – runs through St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. I-196 – from its intersection with I-94 east of Benton Harbor, runs north to Holland, then east to Grand Rapids.