Imagine a time when Kalamazoo had its own zoo, complete with cheeky monkeys and majestic peacocks. What happened to those days of adventure?
Kalamazoo’s Milham Park Zoo was home to all sorts of animals, but it also had its fair share of escape artists. Let’s revisit those wild stories.
I’m sure that I’m not the only person who finds it strange that a city called Kalamazoo doesn’t currently have a zoo. However, there was once a popular zoo here for 50 years.
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Back in 1910, Kalamazoo bought land from the John Milham estate and turned it into what we now know as Milham Park. Fast forward to 1927, the city snagged even more land nearby and opened the Milham Park Zoo. Honestly, it feels like a massive missed opportunity not to call it the “Kalama-Zoo,” right? According to the Kalamazoo Library, Kalamazoo Library website, generous donors even helped stock the zoo by providing animals…