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Meijer was founded as Meijer's in Greenville, Michigan, in 1934 by Hendrik Meijer, a Dutch immigrant. Meijer was a local barber who entered the grocery business during the Great Depression. His first employees included his 14-year-old son, Frederik Meijer, who later became chairman of the company.
For example, there are more than 200 Mud Lakes, 150 Long Lakes, and 120 Rice Lakes. [4] All but four of Minnesota's 87 counties ( Mower, Olmsted, Pipestone and Rock) contain at least one natural lake. [1] Minnesota's lakes provide 44,926 miles of shoreline, more than the combined lake (~32,000 mi) and coastal (3,427 mi) shorelines of California.
Reeds Lake. / 42.95; -85.60. Reeds Lake is a freshwater lake in the city of East Grand Rapids, Michigan. Formerly the site of an early-20th-century amusement park and resort popular with residents of nearby Grand Rapids, it is adjacent to the suburb's modern-day city center, and serves as a symbol for the community.
Isle Royale National Park is an American national park consisting of Isle Royale, along with more than 400 small adjacent islands and the surrounding waters of Lake Superior, in the state of Michigan . Isle Royale is 45 mi (72 km) long and 9 mi (14 km) wide, with an area of 206.73 sq mi (535.4 km 2 ), making it the fourth-largest lake island in ...
Coordinates: 47°21′19″N 94°15′25″W. Flag of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. The Leech Lake Reservation ( Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag in the Ojibwe language) is an Indian reservation located in the north-central Minnesota counties of Cass, Itasca, Beltrami, and Hubbard. The reservation forms the land base for the federally recognized Leech ...
Lamberton Lake is a 28.5-acre (115,000 m 2) freshwater lake located in Kent County in Western Michigan. The lake is approximately 1,700 feet (520 m) long and 1,040 feet (320 m) wide and is centered at 43.02°N 85.63°W just within the city limits in northeast Grand Rapids. The surface elevation is 650 feet (200 m), and most of the lake is less ...
66.42 cu ft/s (1.881 m 3 /s) ( estimate) [1] Plaster Creek is a 25.9-mile-long (41.7 km) [2] urban stream in Kent County, Michigan in the United States. It is a tributary of the Grand River. The stream is named for the large deposit of gypsum found at its mouth. Its mean monthly flow averages 22 million gallons per day.
July 23, 2024 at 2:04 PM. BERLIN TWP. — The body of a missing man was recovered from Sessions Lake Monday, about eight days after he fell from his kayak into the 140-acre body of water in the ...