Battle Creek

Battle Creek lies along the Battle Creek River near its meeting with the Kalamazoo River, amid the low, wooded farmland of southwestern Michigan. Known as “Cereal City,” it became a center of the American breakfast-food industry when W. K. Kellogg established the Kellogg Company here in 1906. The city’s story also reaches into the early history of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, commemorated at Historic Adventist Village. Downtown follows the river through parks and public spaces, while the wider Kalamazoo River valley connects Battle Creek with Michigan’s agricultural interior. See how Battle Creek fits into southwestern Michigan by browsing webcams nearby.

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