The name Kalamazoo has a long extened history. Many a poet and song writer has written lyrics no echted into the nationl memory. In his volume titled "Smoke and Steel" Carol Sandburg put in some verus about Kalamazoo. A 20th -century-Fox picture called "Orchestra Wives" had a song called "I got a girl in Kalamazoo." An Indian word form which "Kalamazoo was derived is " the mirge of reflecting water" This surly is a referance to the water that flows through the city.
On October 29, 1829, The territorial Council established the county and created the first two townships. Brady and Arcadia. The town was first called Bronson named after Titu Bronson. Because Titus was what we would call a non-conformanist a movement was led to have the named changed to Kalamazoo, along with the city being renamed the township of Arcadia was also renamed the same.
When the likes of Titus Bronson and the early setters came to Kalamzoo the area was inhbiited by Indians of the Potawatomi tribe. But the record tells us that this area was covovered with Mounds that Potawatomi new nothing about.. The mound work appears to be that of advanced civilisation called the Mound builders. This work can also be found in the Ohio river valley and the Missipie Delta. The area now ocupied by Western Michigan Universty and the Kalamazoo State hosptial has many earth mounds that are currently not touched.
Bronson arrived in what is today Kalamazoo on June 21, 1829.He spent the summer and fall months getting a permenat structure built, but spent the winter in the Priaire Ronde.
In June 1930 Titus bought the land that has now become downtown Kalamazoo. Sometime around the end of March 1831 the Goverener Lewis Cass names Bronson the county seat. This was the seed that Bronson need to start to grow as a community.
Titus donated some of the land became the town square inculdeding the park that still bares his name.
Titus was seen by many people in the blosseming community as an odd ball type person whom had a strange walk and sloppy manner of dress. At one point in his life he was finded for stealing a cherry tree, and was cought widdling at a cout menaing.
His enimies manged to get the name of his tiny villiage changed to Kalamazoo. He was hurt by this and also began to fell that area was growing to fast around him.
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