Is this one of the cities in Michigan which was turned over to a city manager?

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12. If you want

If you want to see some very cool pictures of both the commons property and also pictures of the asylum as it used to be, just search under Grand Traverse Asylum on Google Images, it's really an incredible place. Also, Wikipedia has some basic information about the asylum, it was one of the better institutions of it's type.

The founder of the asylum, James Decker Munson, traveled all over the country as part of his duties as administrator, he was an amateur botanist and he would always bring cuttings from wherever he traveled back to the asylum and plant them on the grounds. That was almost 100 years ago, the result is literally thousands of massive trees of many, many different varieties, that are planted on the park like grounds of the commons property. It's really a great place to take the dog for a stroll.