About Petoskey, Michigan (courtesy of Wikipedia)

Petoskey is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 6,080. It is the county seat of Emmet County6.

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 for a high concentration of Petoskey stones, the state stone of Michigan. Petoskey is also the birthplace of Information Theorist Claude Shannon and Civil War Historian Bruce Catton. "Petoskey" means "rays of dawn" in the language of the Ottawa (tribe) indians (Little Traverse Bay Band) who are the original inhabitants.

This city was the northern terminus for the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad.

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