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WYOMING (Images of America)

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Wyoming, Michigan, became a city in 1959, the similar year Alaska and Hawaii became states, but its history started more than a century in advance. The first permanent settlers came in 1832, and in 1848, the region split, with the northern portion becoming Wyoming and the southern, Byron Center. Wyoming flourished. The farmers came first with the businesses that supported them. Industry followed. The quite a lot of gypsum mines were a number of the earliest arrivals. General Motors built a stamping plant on Thirty-sixth Street that helped pull the township out of the Great Depression in 1936. It was once a success, so the company built a diesel plant on Burlingame Avenue. Reynolds Metals, Steelcase, Light Metals, Bell Fibre, and others found Wyoming a good place to relocate. People wanted to live where they worked, and that meant an ever-increasing selection of houses were built, followed by additional schools, churches, shops, and restaurants. Rogers Plaza was once West Michigan’s first enclosed mall. Although continuously contentious, the local government did its best to live as much as an ambitious slogan, “Wyoming: the City of Vision and Progress.”


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