Grand Rapids
Its common modern nickname of “River City” refers to the landmark river for which it was named.
Its common modern nickname of “River City” refers to the landmark river for which it was named.
Grand Rapids is a bustling metropolis on the Grand River and is 30 miles east of Lake Michigan. Orchards, Farms & Woods lie on her outskirts. Over 2,000 years ago, Hopewell Indians occupied the Grand River Valley evidenced by earthwork mounds. Grand Rapids Features: the largest all-volunteer arts festival, annual Fifth Third River Bank Run, Celebration on the Grand, Meijer Gardens, and is host to five of the world’s leading office furniture companies. Employment Highlights: office furniture, health care, information technology, aviation and automotive. Grand Rapids is the hometown of U.S. President Gerald Ford, who is buried with his wife Betty on the grounds of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. In 1945, Grand Rapids became the first United States city to add fluoride to its drinking water. School District: Grand Rapids.
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Since the days of the Mound Builders over 2,000 years ago, people have found the area around the rapids of the Grand River to be a pleasant place to live. Each summer the Mound Builders gathered on the rich flood plain along the west bank of the rapids to plant crops, fish, hunt, and construct large earthen burial complexes for their honored dead. In more recent times, native people known collectively as the Three Fires–the Ottawa, Ojibwa (Chippewa) and Potawatomi–made West Michigan their home. Two hundred years ago, Ottawa villages stood on the river’s west bank, at each end of the rapids. Depending for their subsistence on hunting and fishing, supplemented by a small amount of farming, the Ottawa too, found the rapids of Grand River, which they called Owashtanong, an ideal place to live.
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Main Library
111 Library Street NE | 49503
M-Th 9:00 am – 9:00 pm
F-Sat 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sun 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Closed Monday, May 26
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Score: Extremely Livable
Grand Rapids Christian Schools
1508 Alexander Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
Phone: (616) 574-6000
Fax: (616) 574-6010
1331 Franklin SE
P.O. Box 117
Grand Rapids, MI 49501-0117
Fax: (616) 819-2104
377,980 people live in Grand Rapids, where the median age is 34.4 and the average individual income is $38,700.517. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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There's plenty to do around Grand Rapids, including shopping, dining, nightlife, parks, and more. Data provided by Walk Score and Yelp.
Explore popular things to do in the area, including Kimberlys Cakes, Doorganics, and Koeze.
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| Dining · $$ | 3.61 miles | 7 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Dining · $$ | 1.69 miles | 8 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Dining · $$$ | 3.76 miles | 5 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Dining | 4.76 miles | 6 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Dining | 2.25 miles | 12 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Shopping | 0.6 miles | 7 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Active | 1.56 miles | 12 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 3.16 miles | 13 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 2.42 miles | 6 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 2.21 miles | 23 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 0.25 miles | 21 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 1.04 miles | 8 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 0.61 miles | 8 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
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Grand Rapids has 150,052 households, with an average household size of 29.45. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Here’s what the people living in Grand Rapids do for work — and how long it takes them to get there. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. 377,980 people call Grand Rapids home. The population density is 3,477.892 and the largest age group is Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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