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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Niles, Michigan, Cassopolis, Michigan, Calvin Township, Michigan, Pokagon Township, Michigan, Mason Township, Cass County, Michigan, Jefferson Township, Cass County, Michigan, Marcellus, Michigan, Milton Township, Cass County, Michigan, Edwardsburg, Michigan, Porter Township, Cass County, Michigan, LaGrange Township, Michigan, Howard Township, Michigan, Dowagiac, Michigan, Newberg Township, Michigan, Vandalia, Michigan, Ontwa Township, Michigan, Volinia Township, Michigan, Penn Township, Michigan, Silver Creek Township, Michigan, Wayne Township, Michigan, Marcellus Township, Michigan, Cass District Library, Mason District Number 5 Schoolhouse, South Bend - Mishawaka metropolitan area, M-217, Rocky River, List of Michigan State Historic Sites in Cass County, Michigan, Dowagiac River, Dowagiac Woods, Lake Michigan Shore AVA, Newton Woods, Corey Lake, Indian Lake, Calvin crater, Marcellus News, Ross Beatty Junior/Senior High School. Excerpt: Cass County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the population was 51,104. It is part of the South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI, Metropolitan Statistical Area which has a total population of 316,663 and is sometimes considered part of Greater Michiana. Cass County has numerous lakes and is popular for fishing and boating. The county is named for Lewis Cass, the Michigan Territorial Governor at the time the county was created in 1829. Cass later served as the United States Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, thus making a case for including Cass County as one of Michigan's "cabinet counties." Cass County was not so heavily forested and had more fertile prairie land than other nearby areas of Michigan, and thus during early settlement it grew more rapidly in population. As early as 1830, a carding mill was started in the county on Dowagiac Creek, a...