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Reeds Lake. / 42.95; -85.60. Reeds Lake is a freshwater lake in the city of East Grand Rapids, Michigan. Formerly the site of an early-20th-century amusement park and resort popular with residents of nearby Grand Rapids, it is adjacent to the suburb's modern-day city center, and serves as a symbol for the community.
Ramona Park was located on the west shore of Reeds Lake in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, and owned and operated by the Grand Rapids Street Railway Company, a trolley park [2] By 1921 the Ramona Amusement Corporation was formed and managed by the Railway Company. Trolley parks were common in the United States from the late 1800s into the mid ...
26-23980 [2] GNIS feature ID. 0625189 [3] Website. Official website. East Grand Rapids is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,371. [4] The city is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, including Grand Rapids and Grand Rapids Township, but the city is administered autonomously.
The Ramona Branch was a railroad branch line in Kent County, Michigan.First placed in service in August, 1888, [1] it ran 2.53 miles (4.07 km) [2] starting from its connection at its western end with the Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad (Currently CSX) at Oakdale Park Station in southeast Grand Rapids, Michigan near present day Eastern Avenue railroad crossing on the CSX Grand Rapids ...
The second was the Ramona Branch, a short extension from Oakdale Park Station to Reeds Lake, later East Grand Rapids, Michigan to serve the resorts there. [9] [10] In the railroad's last full year of operation, it carried nearly 643,000 passengers, with the average trip 31 miles (50 km).
Buck Creek (Kent County, Michigan) Buck Creek is a 20.3-mile-long (32.7 km) [2] tributary of the Grand River in Kent and Allegan counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. It rises in northern Allegan County in Byron and Gaines townships, and flows through the cities of Kentwood and Wyoming as an urban stream to enter the Grand River in Grandville.
In popular culture. References. East Grand Rapids High School. Appearance. Coordinates: 42°56′58″N85°36′50″W42.94944°N 85.61389°W 1. East Grand Rapids High School. Address. 2211 Lake Drive Southeast.
Description. Heritage Hill is adjacent to downtown Grand Rapids and is the city's oldest residential district. Its 1,300 homes date from 1843 and represent Michigan's largest and finest concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth-century houses. Nearly every style of American architecture, from Greek Revival to Prairie is represented.