Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
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 and Indiana, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and other railroads. It is 60 miles WNW. of Lansing. The site is one of much natural beauty. The river here falls 18 feet in a mile. The sawing and planing of pine and hard-wood lumber and the manufacture of furniture, cooperage, and wooden-ware are leading industries, the manufacture of furniture alone employing upward of 16,000 hands. Farm-implements, wagons, iron goods, wire, leather, flour, machinery, beer, chemicals, white bricks, paving-bricks, cement, and calcined plaster are also extensively manufactured, there being near the town important gypsum-quarries. The town has numerous fine public and private edifices, various charitable and benevolent institutions, and contains the Michigan Soldiers' Home, the State Masonic Home, a United States court-house, public library (of 20,000 volumes), etc. Grand Rapids is the seat of Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal bishoprics. Pop. in 1860, 8025; in 1870, 16,507; in 1880, 32,016: in 1890, 60,278; in 1900, 87,565.

Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher

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