The name "Kikanamaso" was also recorded by Father Pierre Potier, a Jesuit missionary for the Huron-Wendats at the Assumption mission (south shore of Detroit), while en route to Fort Saint-Joseph during the fall of 1760. The Kalamazoo River was then known by Canadians and French as La rivière Kikanamaso. French-Canadian traders, missionaries, and military personnel were quite familiar with this area during the French era and thereafter. The Kalamazoo River, which passes through the modern city of Kalamazoo, was located on the route between Detroit and Fort Saint-Joseph (nowadays Niles, Michigan). The name “Kalamazoo” comes from a Potawatomi word, first found in a British report in 1772. Originally known as Bronson (after founder Titus Bronson) in the township of Arcadia, the names of both the city and the township were changed to "Kalamazoo" in 18, respectively. Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University, a large public university, Kalamazoo College, a private liberal arts college, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College, a two-year community college. The city created the mall in 1959 by closing part of Burdick Street to auto traffic, although two of the mall's four blocks have been reopened to auto traffic since 1999. One of Kalamazoo's most notable features is the Kalamazoo Mall, an outdoor pedestrian shopping mall. Kalamazoo is equidistant from Chicago and Detroit, being about 140 miles (230 km) away from both. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 335,340 in 2015. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County.
Kalamazoo ( / ˌ k æ l ə m ə ˈ z uː/ KAL-ə-mə- ZOO) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S.
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