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Heartside is a neighborhood located near downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan.Heartside district is a developing area in the city known for its art. It has restaurants, a park with a playground and splash-pad, and a recently opened farmer's market.
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 ...
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]
East West Brewing - Grand Rapids; Elk Brewing Company - Grand Rapids, Comstock Park [147] [148] Falling Down Beer Company - Warren, Oxford [149] Fresh Coast Beer Works – Traverse City; Goebel Brewing Company - Detroit; Grand Rapids Brewing Company - Grand Rapids; Grand Valley Brewing Company – Ionia; Guardian Brewing Company [150] – Saugatuck
In 1979, David L. Brown obtained licensing rights to use intellectual properties from the Jay Ward Productions and Total Television catalog. Brown's first project involving IPs from these two studios came in the form of Bullwinkle's Call of the Wild Show, a live stage production featuring the characters of Bullwinkle J. Moose, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Snidley Whiplash, Underdog, and Moonbeam ...
Further excavations were undertaken by H. E. Sargent in 1915. In 1936, Mrs. W. B. Stiles deeded the land that many of the mounds were located on to the city of Grand Rapids, and the area became a city park. [3] The site was listed on the Michigan Register of Historic Sites in 1957, [5] and it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965 ...
It is now named in honor of longtime Michigan resident Rosa Parks, of whom there is a statue in the park. [6] On August 7, 2012 Rosa Parks Circle was the location of a Guinness Book world record for the largest number of people swing dancing in unison (756 individuals) organized by the Grand Rapids Original Swing Society. [7] [8]
Canal Street Brewing Co., LLC, [2] doing business as Founders Brewing Company, [3] is a brewery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, known for producing several highly rated and award-winning craft-style ales, including KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout), Centennial IPA, Dirty Bastard, and Founders Porter.