Grand Rapids Michigan is a beautiful city!  It is East of Lake Michigan, on the Grand River
Michigan seems like a great place to live. It is also home to the Detroit Lions.
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
reaching Grand Haven on the shores of Lake Michigan on November 22, 1858. From Detroit through Grand Rapids to Grand Haven the line stretched . While similar to the projected northern line, it ignored St. Clair in favor of a Detroit terminus.
Winfield Scott Gerrish is credited with revolutionizing lumbering in Michigan by building a seven-mile-long logging railroad from Lake George to the Muskegon River in Clare County in 1877.
Chronology Land grants and mining roads.
The third great burst in railroad activity in the state of Michigan