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The Ledyard Block Historic District is a group of seven adjacent, coherently designed, nineteenth century commercial structures located within a square block at 123-145 Ottawa Avenue and 104-124 Monroe Center, NW, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The group of buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
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 ...
Road Map of Kent County, Michigan (Map). 1 in:1.5 mi. Grand Rapids, MI: ... year= 2010 |title= Road Map of Kent County, Michigan |location= Grand Rapids, MI ...
Ford represented the Grand Rapids area in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1973. As of July 2023 [update] , GRR had flights to 33 airports in the United States. [ 5 ] It is the largest commercial airport in the West Michigan region, and the second-largest airport in Michigan after Detroit Metropolitan Airport .
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.
US 16) was a bypass route of US 16 in the Grand Rapids area. The highway became a part of the state highway system c. 1930 as a part of M-114, which was a beltline around the Grand Rapids area. [61] By 1942, the trunkline was completed and reassigned a Byp. US 16 designation along the southern and western legs.
This is a list of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1] [2] The current mayor is David LaGrand, ... John M. Fox 1856 1857 Democratic 8 William T. Powers: 1857 1858
Dorr is an unincorporated community at , near the center of the township, west of U.S. Highway 131 exit The ZIP code is 49323. It is in the northeast part of Allegan County, 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Wayland and 19 miles (31 km) south-southwest of Grand Rapids.