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Map of Michigan with Kent County highlighted The following is a list of Registered Historic Places in Kent County, Michigan . This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 20, 2024.
Ramona Park was an amusement park located in the city of East Grand Rapids, Michigan between 1881 and 1955. The Park included a double track wooden roller coaster, a theater pavilion, a ridable miniature railway and boat livery .
Augustus Paddock was born in New York state, and later came to Michigan. He worked on a steamboat on the Grand River, and by 1865 was the manager of the Newaygo Company, a lumbering firm that established the village of Newaygo, Michigan. He became a partner in 1867. In 1872, Paddock purchased the land where Paddock Place now stands.
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 ...
Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park is a 92-mile (148 km) long linear state park in the U.S. state of Michigan. The trail extends from northern Grand Rapids to Cadillac, and it lies on the path graded for the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad (later absorbed by the Pennsylvania Railroad). The White Pine Trail is a rail trail park.
Undeveloped state park. [8] Grand Haven State Park: Ottawa: 48 acres 19 ha: 1920: Lake Michigan: Grand Mere State Park: Berrien: 1,100 acres 450 ha: 1973: Lake Michigan: Harrisville State Park: Alcona: 107 acres 43 ha: 1920: Lake Huron: Hartwick Pines State Park: Crawford: 9,338 acres 3,779 ha: 1927: East Branch Au Sable River: Old-growth white ...
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a 158-acre (64 ha) botanical garden, art museum, [3] and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1995, Meijer Gardens quickly established itself in the Midwest as a major cultural attraction jointly focused on horticulture and sculpture.
Operated by the Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation, it is located on Mount Werner, a mountain in the Park Range in the Routt National Forest. Originally named Storm Mountain ski area, it opened on January 12, 1963. [1] [2] The ski area has 297 named trails spread over 2,965 acres (4.6 sq mi; 12.0 km 2). Of those, 14% are classified as beginner ...