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The city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. [ 9] It was officially established on May 2, 1850, when the village of Grand Rapids voted to accept the proposed city charter. The population at the time was 2,686. By 1857, the city of Grand Rapids' area totaled 10.5 square miles (27 km 2 ).
On April 4, 2022, Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old resident of Grand Rapids, was fatally shot by Officer Christopher Schurr of the Grand Rapids Police Department during a scuffle between the two in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. After Lyoya began to flee the scene, Schurr attempted to detain him, unsuccessfully fired a taser at Lyoya, and ...
Amway Grand Plaza Hotel: 318 / 97: 28: 1983: Held the title as the tallest building in Grand Rapids from 1983 until 1991. [3] 4: Bridgewater Place: 272 / 83: 18: 1993: Part of Bridgewater place complex, one of two buildings. [4] 5: McKay Tower: 259 / 79: 16: 1927: Held the title as the tallest building in Grand Rapids from 1927 until 1983, the ...
The Norton Mound group was the center of Hopewellian culture in that area, from ca. 400 B.C. to A.D. 400. These mounds were probably constructed in the first century AD. [3] The name "Norton Mounds" comes from Captain A.N. Norton, who owned this property in the 1800s. [4] The mounds were first excavated in 1874 by W. L. Coffinbury.
“The next morning, I get up, I'm in the airport, and I'm looking up at CNN or whatever the news that's on the airport television,” Smith said. “They're like, ‘Yesterday's Woodstock ...
July 25, 2024 at 5:57 PM. DETROIT (AP) — Workers have linked the U.S. and Canadian sides of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge spanning the Detroit River, a major step in bringing the ...
MLive Media Group, originally known as Booth Newspapers, or Booth Michigan, is a media group that produces newspapers in the state of Michigan. Founded by George Gough Booth with his two brothers, Booth Newspapers was sold to Advance Publications, a Samuel I. Newhouse property, in 1976. MLive Media Group newspaper publications include The Ann ...
Updated July 25, 2024 at 10:35 PM. A 42-year-old man was arrested Thursday and accused of pushing a burning car into a ravine that sparked the massive Park Fire, an ongoing blaze that has burned ...