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Terri Lynn Land — Michigan Secretary of State [21] Louise Little — Mother of Malcolm X; John H. Logie — Mayor of Grand Rapids [16] [22] Peter Meijer — U.S. Congressman; son of Hank Meijer; Frederick Henry Mueller — U.S. Secretary of Commerce [23] Agnes Nestor — women's suffrage and workers' rights activist [24] Lyman Parks — Mayor ...
West Michigan Edge was an American soccer team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1995, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid , until 2008, when the franchise folded and the team left the league.
Clinton Village Office. Clinton is a village in Lenawee County in the Irish Hills area of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,336 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Clinton Township. Both the village and township are named in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the governor of New York from 1817 to 1828.
Midwest United FC was founded in 1990 under the moniker GRASA (Grand Rapids Area Soccer Association) and was the first youth select soccer club in Grand Rapids. [2] The initial registration was 60 players from around the area.
Grand Rapids FC was an American soccer club based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose senior men's team played in USL League Two. The team was founded in 2014 and ceased operations in 2021. [ 1 ] Its first season was in 2015.
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
Grand Rapids Alliance were an American soccer team, founded in 2002. The team was a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid , until 2006, when the team left the league and the franchise was terminated.
Described sometimes as the Greenwich Village of Grand Rapids, [2] it is considered a liberal oasis in a generally conservative area. [3] Today a walkable mixed-use neighborhood, Eastown began as a streetcar commuter suburb, midway between downtown Grand Rapids and the resort area of Reeds Lake. Eastown has an active community association ...