HOLLAND, a city of Ottawa county, Michigan, U.S.A., 25 m. S.W. of Grand Rapids, on Macatawa bay (or Black lake), 5 m. from Lake Michigan. It is served by the Pere Marquette railroad, by lake steamers to Chicago the year round, and by motor-bus lines in every direction. The population was 12,183 in 192o (82% native white) and was 14,346 in 1930 by the Federal census. Within 10 m. of the city are numerous resorts, which in summer add at least 15,000 to the population. Holland was founded by Dutch settlers in 1847, under the leadership of the Rev. A. C. Van Raalte, and the population is still predominantly of Dutch descent. It is the seat of Hope college, founded in 1851 by the Dutch Reformed Church, and of the Western Theological seminary of the same denomination (1869) ; and two weekly papers printed in Dutch are published here. The city has substantial manu facturing industries, with an output in 2925 valued at and the traffic of its harbour in 1925 (5o,661 tons) was valued at $13,177,000. Its leading products are hot-air furnaces, smoke less furnaces and stokers, furniture, shoes, pianos, drugs, cosmetics and food products. Holland was chartered as a city in 1867.