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Midland, Midland County

Well-Known Places in Midland

The Tridge, Dow Gardens, Whiting Forest Canopy Walk.

Midland Business Districts

• Downtown Midland
• Eastman Avenue Corridor
• Saginaw Road Corridor
• Center City District

Major Employers in Midland

The Dow Chemical Company (global headquarters), Corteva Agriscience, MyMichigan Medical Center Midland, Midland Public Schools, Dow Corning / DuPont operations, Three Rivers Corporation.

About Midland, Midland County

Midland sits where the Chippewa River meets the Tittabawassee, a city of roughly 42,500 that one chemist rebuilt around the brine under its feet. Herbert H. Dow turned that brine into The Dow Chemical Company in 1897, and his son Alden, an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright, spent fifty years filling the town with more than 130 buildings. The result is an unlikely mid-century modern showcase in mid-Michigan, complete with a three-legged footbridge, the longest canopy walk in the United States, and an LPGA tournament.

History of Midland

• Began in the late 1820s as an American Fur Company fur-trading post, then grew as a lumbering settlement in the 1830s. The name comes from the county, which sits roughly in the middle of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
• Herbert Henry Dow (1866-1930) built his business on a cheaper method of extracting bromine from local brine, founding the Midland Chemical Company (1890), the Dow Process Company (1895) and The Dow Chemical Company (1897). Dow Chemical incorporated in 1900, consolidating all of his Midland properties.

Landmarks and Places in Midland

• Whiting Forest of Dow Gardens, whose canopy walk is the longest in the United States at 1,400 feet, rising up to 40 feet above the forest floor. It opened in October 2018 after a four-year, 20 million dollar effort across 54 acres.
• Dow Gardens, a roughly 100-acre botanical garden and arboretum.

The Midland Economy

• Dow remains headquartered in Midland and is the dominant employer, one of the largest chemical producers in the world.
• Dow Corning, the silicones maker, was also headquartered in Midland.
• The Dow Michigan Operations Industrial Park opened in 2018 on 2,600 acres, serving multiple companies with roughly 6,000 employees and contractors.

Community Life in Midland

• The Great Lakes Loons, a Single-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, played their first game at Dow Diamond on April 13, 2007. The park was named Ballpark Digest's best new park that year.
• The Dow Championship, an LPGA tournament, was introduced in 2019 at Midland Country Club.
• The Midland Center for the Arts houses the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art.

Local reference: en.wikipedia.org, www.britannica.com, www.sciencehistory.org