Cadillac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 10,000. The city is situated at the junction of U.S. Highway 131 and Michigan State Highway 55 The city is between Haring Township on the north and Clam Lake Township on the south. Cadillac became the county seat after the so-called “Battle of Manton” in which a show of force was involved in enforcing a controversial decision to move the county seat from Manton, Michigan.
Overview
Although European explorers and traders visited the area since the 1700s, permanent white settlement did not begin until much later. Initial settlements were connected with the logging industry. Cadillac was originally called Clam Lake and was incorporated as a village in 1874. It changed its name and incorporated as the city of Cadillac three years later in 1877, named after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701. Many early settlers were Swedish and two of Cadillac’s sister cities are Mölnlycke, Sweden, and Rovaniemi, Finland. Cadillac was also home to the Michigan Iron Works Company, which manufactured Shay locomotives for a short time in the early 1880s.
The 1,150 acre Lake Cadillac is entirely within the city limits, and some claim it is the largest lake entirely the city limits of any city in the United States. The larger, 2,580 acre Lake Mitchell is nearby on the west side of the city, with 1,760 feet of shoreline within the city’s municipal boundary. The lakes were connected by a stream which was replaced in 1873 by the Clam Lake Canal. Lake Cadillac was formerly known as Little Clam Lake, while Lake Mitchell was Big Clam Lake. Lake Mitchell was renamed for George A. Mitchell, a railroad executive in the 1870s. The canal was featured on Ripley’s Believe It or Not in the 1970s because in winter the canal freezes before the lakes and then after the lakes freeze, the canal thaws and remains unfrozen for the rest of the winter. Although it is illegal to attempt to use a snowmobile to cross the open water on the canal, some individuals occasionally try to do so.
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