In the summer of 1873, a few years before the chief's passing, a city began on his land along Little Traverse Bay.
Harbor Springs is in a sheltered bay on the north shore of the Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan.
When Little Traverse Bay freezes over in the winter months, many people venture out on the ice for ice fishing and ice boating.
In 2005 a bronze statue of Petosegay was erected in Petoskey on a prominent hill overlooking the town and Little Traverse Bay.
Only a small amount of wreckage, two life vests, and some spilled fuel was found in Little Traverse Bay.
Little Traverse Bay is a small bay, 170 feet (55 m) deep, off Lake Michigan in the northern area of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
He saw the lights of Petoskey and, off across Little Traverse Bay, the lights of Harbor Springs.
The park has frontage on Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan and is surrounded by heavily vegetated sand dunes.
The 1,000-acre property, with five miles of shoreline on bluffs overlooking Little Traverse Bay, has long been considered prime for recreational development.
It is situated on a ridge overlooking the Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan.