About Hope College

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Hope College is a private Christian unbiased arts scholastic in Holland, Michigan. It opened in 1851 as the Pioneer School by Dutch immigrants four years after the community was first settled. The first freshman educational class matriculated in 1862 and Hope conventional its declare charter in 1866. Hope College is affiliated next the Reformed Church in America and retains a Christian atmosphere. Its 125 acres (0.195 sq mi) campus is neighboring the downtown flyer district and has been shared next Western Theological Seminary in the past 1884.

Holland is a city in the western region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated close the eastern shore of Lake Michigan upon Lake Macatawa, which is fed by the Macatawa River (formerly known locally as the Black River).

The city spans the Ottawa/Allegan county line, with 9.08 square miles (23.52 km2) in Ottawa and the steadfast 8.13 square miles (21.06 km2) in Allegan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,051, with an urbanized area population of 113,164, as of 2015.

Holland is the largest city in Ottawa County, and as of 2013 portion of the Grand Rapids–Kentwood–Muskegon Combined Statistical Area. Holland was founded by Dutch Americans, and is in an area that has a large percentage of citizens of Dutch American heritage. It is house to Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, institutions of the Reformed Church in America.

In February 1996 the Holland City Council credited a sister city relationship between Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico and the City of Holland.