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Sparta is a village in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,244 at the 2020 census. The village is located within Sparta Township. Sparta is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is located about 10 miles (16 km) north of the city of Grand Rapids.
Sparta Township is a civil township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,395 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is located about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of the city of Grand Rapids. The village of Sparta is located within the township.
Location of Michigan within the United States. The following is a List of Michigan State Historic Sites.The register is maintained by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, which was established in the late 1960s after the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. [1]
After the war, from the fall of 1865 to 1871, Belknap lived on a farm in Sparta, Michigan, before returning to Grand Rapids, where he organized the Belknap Wagon and Sleigh Company, a very successful business that manufactured wagons and sleighs.
The Edward E. Hartwick Memorial Building is a 1-1/2 story rustic log structure built entirely of Michigan pine, and is one of the few remaining examples of the rustic log architecture used in the 1920s and 1930s by the Michigan State Park system. 3: M-72–Au Sable River Bridge: M-72–Au Sable River Bridge: December 9, 1999
Sparta High School was ranked 195th in Michigan and 5,886th nationally in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report ' s annual survey of US public high schools. [3] Spatra offers Advanced Placement and honors programs; duel enrollment through Ferris State University; and vocational education programs through the Kent Career Technical Center.
January 9 - Amherst B. Cheney, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (1877–1880), 1888 Prohibition nominee for governor, at age 85 in Sparta [9] May 18 - Andrew Kehoe , spree killer who initiated the Bath School disaster , suicide by explosives at age 55 in Bath Township
Rosentreter, Roger L. Michigan: A History of Explorers, Entrepreneurs, and Everyday People (2013) Rubenstein, Bruce A. and Lawrence E. Ziewacz. Michigan: A History of the Great Lakes State (Harlan Davidson 2002) online. university textbook; Sisson, Richard, Ed. The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (2006), 1890pp, articles by scholars.