Grand Rapids, Michigan is pretty cold!
Yes! I heard it's on the Grand River.
How long is the Grand River?
I'm not quite sure. But I do know that the population of the city is 188,040.
That's pretty small.    What major city is nearby?
The nearest large city might be Detroit. It is the second largest city in Michigan.
What is the largest city in Michigan?
Detroit, Michigan, but that is not Grand Rapids.
OK,    Gerald Ford is from that area, right?
buried with his wife Betty on the grounds of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in the city. The city's main airport and one of its freeways are also named after him.
History.
History Native American settlement.
For thousands of years, succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples occupied the area. Over 2000 years ago, people associated with the Hopewell culture occupied the Grand River Valley. Later, a tribe from the Ottawa River traveled to the Grand River valley, fighting three battles with the Prairie Indians who were established
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is the second-largest city in Michigan and the largest city in West Michigan. It is on the Grand River about east of Lake Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 188,040. In 2010, the Grand Rapids metropolitan area had a population of 1,005,648, and the combined statistical area of Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland had a population of 1,321,557. Grand Rapids is the county seat of Kent County.
A historic furniture-manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is