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1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) Millennium Park is the largest urban park in West Michigan, located on the southwest side of Grand Rapids. Millennium Park connects four of the major cities in the area together, including Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Grandville, and Walker. When completed, the park will be twice as large as New York City's Central Park, at ...
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An 1868 pictorial map of Grand Rapids. By 1838, the settlement incorporated as a village, and encompassed approximately three-quarters of a mile (1 km) . The first formal census in 1845 recorded a population of 1,510 and an area of 4 square miles (10 km 2 ). The city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. [9]
The Norton Mound group was the center of Hopewellian culture in that area, from ca. 400 B.C. to A.D. 400. These mounds were probably constructed in the first century AD. [3] The name "Norton Mounds" comes from Captain A.N. Norton, who owned this property in the 1800s. [4] The mounds were first excavated in 1874 by W. L. Coffinbury.
Kent Trails. Coordinates: 42.89408°N 85.73192°W. Kent Trails is a fifteen-mile rail trail in Kent County, Michigan that runs through the cities of Grand Rapids, Grandville, Walker, Wyoming and Byron Township [1] and is part of a network of trails in and around Grand Rapids. It runs north and south from John Ball Park in Grand Rapids to 84th ...
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.
No. Portrait Name Term start Term end Party Henry R. Williams 1850 1851 Whig Ralph W. Cole 1851 1852 Whig William H. Withey 1852 1853 Whig Thomas B. Church
Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The park, opened in 2004 and intended to celebrate the third millennium, is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) section of northwestern Grant Park.