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History of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Journey back in time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Visit Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1825 - Grand Rapids, Michigan founded
  
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• 1854 - Grand Rapids
  Grand Rapids city, capital of Kent co., Michigan, is finely situated on the rapids of Grand River, 40 miles from its mouth, and 60 miles W. N. W....Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1876 - September 19 - 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
  
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• 1880 - July 23 - 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
  
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  1880s
  The Goshen Sweeper Co.
  Easiest Operated Carpet Sweepers Made
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• 1895 - Grand Rapids
  Grand Rapids, a city of Michigan, capital of Kent co., at the head of steamboat navigation on Grand River," the junction of 6 railroads,—the Chicago...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1896 - An Aeronaut Killed
  Grand Rapids, Mich., June 29. - Hiram Cole, twenty-six years old, a professional aeronaut, living in Big Rapids, Mich., fell thirty feet from his...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  A Good Cheap Desk
  The Fred Macey Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
  
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  January 1898
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  Ramona Theatre, Reeds Lake, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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  Canal Street, looking North
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  Hotel Pantlind
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  The Dam. Grand River, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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  U. B. A. Hospital, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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  Monroe Avenue Looking West. Grand Rapids, Mich.
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  City Hall, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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  Lower Monroe Avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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•  1905 - TRAIN CRASHES INTO STREET CAR
  Four Probably Fatally Injured, Two Others Hurt, at Grand Rapids, Mich.
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 1. — Six persons were injured, four probably...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Campau Square, 1909
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  A View in John Ball Park, 1909
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•  1910 - BIG CYCLONE RUINS CROPS
  Michigan Section Storm Swept, and Creek Overflows, Flooding Houses.
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 25. - A storm of cyclone proportions raged today...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Boat and Canoe Club
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  Kent County Court House
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  High School
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  North Park Pavilion
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  Michigan Soldier's Home
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•  1912 - TORNADO
  Grand Rapids, Mich, July 13. - Grand Rapids was hit early today by a cyclone that injured forty or more persons and did thousands of dollars worth of ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Monroe and S. Division St.
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  Morton House
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  Phoenix Furniture Co.
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• 1916
  Grand Rapids, a city of Michigan, capital of Kent co., at the head of steamboat navigation on the Grand River, at the junction of the Grand Rapids...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  New Y.M.C.A. Building, 1916
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  First Methodist Episcopal Church
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  Grand River
  Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co.
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  Interurban Bridge
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  Butterworth Hospital
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• 1945 - January 25 - Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
  
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  Civic Auditorium, 1949
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