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2. List of museums in Michigan - Wikipedia

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   Northern Michigan: Local history: Open by appointment with the Brethren Heritage Association [11] [12] Bunert One-Room School House Museum: Warren: Macomb: Southeast Michigan: School: Operated by the Warren Historical Society, late 19th-century one-room school Byron Area Historic Museum: Byron Center: Kent: West Michigan: Local history ...

3. Big Rapids, Michigan - Wikipedia

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   Big Rapids is a city and the seat of government of Mecosta County, Michigan, United States. The population was 7,727 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] down from 10,601 in 2010 . [ 5 ] The city is surrounded by Big Rapids Charter Township but they are completely separate jurisdictions.

4. Nisbett Building - Wikipedia

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   Comstock himself went bankrupt in 1896, and the building ownership was assumed by the Michigan Trust Company of Grand Rapids. The Trust sold the building to William P. Nisbett, a retired newspaper editor from Big Rapids, in 1900 for $20,000. Nisbett was born in London in 1847, and in 1861 emigrated with his family to the United States. [3]

5. Mecosta County, Michigan - Wikipedia

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   The GR&I reached the city limits of Big Rapids on June 20, 1870, and the Village of Paris on July 1, 1870. Construction of the GR&I continued for several years until the line reached Petoskey in December 1873. [8] Early county prisoners were housed in the county sheriff's private house, a local hotel, the Kent County jail, or the Newaygo County ...

6. Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia - Wikipedia

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   The Jim Crow Museum houses over 10,000 artifacts; the majority of the objects were created between the 1870s and the 1960s. The largest portion of the museum's holdings is anti-black memorabilia, for example, mammy candles, Nellie fishing lures, picaninny ashtrays, sambo masks, and lawn jockeys. The museum also displays Jim Crow memorabilia ...

7. Mt. Mercy Apartments - Wikipedia

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   The sisters, feeling the same financial pressures, turned to medicine and opened a hospital in Big Rapids, Michigan in 1879 to tend to lumberjacks. The move was successful, and the order spent the rest of the 1800s in Big Rapids. [2] By the 1910s, lumbering in Michigan had almost disappeared, and the order decided to return to Grand Rapids.

8. Fairman Building - Wikipedia

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   Nisbett Building (left) and Fairman Building (right), c. 1906. The Fairman Building is a three-story rectangular red brick Italianate commercial block. [3] It is located at the intersection of Maple and South Michigan, and has two main facades, with five three-bay storefronts and single-bay entryway to the upper floors on South Michigan and four three-bay storefronts on Maple.

9. List of the oldest buildings in Michigan - Wikipedia

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   Oldest business in Michigan [4] Hubbard-Kesby House: Milford: c. 1835: Residential Botsford Inn: Farmington: 1836 Tavern Calkins law office Grand Rapids 1836 law office Orrin White House: Ann Arbor: 1836-1840 Residential St. Marks Episcopal Grand Rapids 1836 Religious Rogers Mansion Wyoming MI 1836 Residential Oldest house in Kent county ...