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Alpine is an unincorporated community centered along M-37 at 3]; Comstock Park is a census-designated place that occupies the southeast corner of the township and extends east into Plainfield Charter Township.
[20] In the Grand Rapids area, Alpine Avenue was originally constructed as a plank road. These roads were at least 8 feet (2.4 m) wide covered with wood planks 3 inches (76 mm) thick. [21] A portion of M-37 follows the route of the Muskegon, Grand Traverse and Northport State Road, which was later renamed the Newaygo and Northport State Road.
An 1868 pictorial map of Grand Rapids. By 1838, the settlement incorporated as a village, and encompassed approximately .75 square miles (1.9 km 2). [18] An outcropping of gypsum, where Plaster Creek enters the Grand River, was known to the Native American inhabitants of the area. Pioneer geologist Douglass Houghton commented on this find in 1838.
By 1945, a Bypass US 131 was created around the south and east sides of Grand Rapids, following 28th Street and East Beltline Avenue, while the main highway continued to run through downtown unchanged. [43] A decade later, mainline US 131 was rerouted around Grand Rapids over the former bypass route, and Business US 131 (Bus. US 131) was ...
Villa Maria is a retirement community located at 1315 Walker NW in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The campus was originally operated for the purpose of ministering to troubled young women. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The name "Belknap Lookout" has two separate derivations. The word Belknap comes from the surname of Charles E. Belknap.Belknap was a Grand Rapids resident who came home from the Civil War in 1871 to serve Grand Rapids as the first commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, as mayor in 1884 and as a U.S. congressman in 1888.
Ada Township (/ ˈ eɪ d ə / AY-də) is a civil township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The population was 14,388 at the 2020 census. [3]The majority of the township is included in the Forest Hills census-designated place, which is used only for statistical purposes.
Covenant Christian High School (CCHS) is a private Christian high school in Walker, Michigan, in Greater Grand Rapids. [1] It has a Grand Rapids, Michigan postal address. [2] The Society for Protestant Reformed Secondary Education established the school in 1968 and catered it towards believers of the Protestant Reformed Churches. As of 2012 it ...