Pole Bending Horses for Sale near Alma, MI

About Alma, MI

Alma was founded in 1853 by Ralph Ely. Perhaps first known for the Alma Springs Sanitarium, built and promoted in the 1880s by millionaire lumberman and capitalist Ammi Willard Wright, it achieved its greatest prominence nationally in the 1910s and 1920s as home of the Republic Motor Truck Company, briefly the largest exclusive truck manufacturer in the world. In 1953 Alma became the first place that high-octane gas, 96 octane, was produced. As of the census of 2010, there were 9,383 people, 3,468 households, and 2,033 families living in the city. The population density was 1,582.3 inhabitants per square mile (610.9/km 2).