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Your guide to Petoskey, Michigan assisted living facilities. With so many senior housing options available, how do you know which one is right for your family?
Our Senior Living Advisors live in the Petoskey area and can provide you with an insider's view of local communities including pricing information and distinctive features.
Request information online by filling out the form to the right or call us at 855-363-2002 for a no-cost, in-depth assessment of your senior care needs. Our compassionate advisors can help you find the best Petoskey assisted living facilities for your unique needs and budget.
The official website for the city of Petoskey is http://www.petoskey.us/.
Cities near Petoskey offering memory care options
Conway | Walloon Lake | Oden | Bay Shore | Alanson | Boyne City | Boyne Falls | Burt Lake | Harbor Springs | Brutus | Pellston -
Assisted Living Costs in Nearby Cities
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Facts about Petoskey
Petoskey is also known as: Emmet County / Petoskey city.
And some of the notable people born here have been: W. Bruce Cameron (author), Megan Boone (actor), Mitch Maier (baseball player), Trevor Huffman (basketball player), and Shelby Fenner (actor).
And featured attractions of Petoskey: St. Francis Solanus Mission, West Mitchell Street Bridge, North Central Michigan College, Odawa Casino Resort, and City Park Grill.
Petoskey is represented by Mayor Bill Fraser.
Petoskey is a city and coastal resort community in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,670 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Emmet County.Petoskey and the surrounding area are notable for being the setting of several of the Nick Adams stories by Ernest Hemingway, who spent his childhood summers on nearby Walloon Lake, as well as being the place where for Calliope, the protagonist of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, events take a severe and lasting turn. Petoskey was also the location where 50,000 passenger pigeon birds were killed each day in the late 19th century, prior to their complete extinction in the early 20th century. A state historical marker commemorates the events, including the last great nesting in 1878. One hunter was reputed to have personally killed "a million birds" and earned $60,000, the equivalent of $1 million today.Petoskey is also famous for a high concentration of Petoskey stones, the state stone of Michigan. Petoskey is the birthplace of information theorist Claude Shannon and Civil War historian Bruce Catton and is the boyhood home of singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. Actress Megan Boone, star of the NBC television series The Blacklist that premiered in September 2013, was born in Petoskey.The name "Petoskey" is said to mean "where the light shines through the clouds" in the language of the Odawa Indians who founded the community. Petosega's father was a French Canadian fur trader and his mother was an Odawa (Ottawa) Indian.This city was the northern terminus of the Chicago and West Michigan Railway.
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Population shifts in Petoskey
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Average temperatures in Petoskey
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