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Article: HISTORY PLENTIFUL IN GRAND RAPIDS.(LIVING)(Column)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 16, 1996
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Byline: Nick Clooney
It is tempting to close your eyes and wonder what this might have looked like a couple of hundred years ago.
These are the rapids of the Grand River in western Michigan. At the nearby library there is a map made of the area in the early 1800s. It shows a mile-long rapids with a fall of more than 18 feet. That looks about right.
That stretch of rapids apparently was always a magnet. There is evidence that a large community of Mound people lived here in ancient times. Then a Native American tribe known as the Ottawa settled here after being pushed out of their Eastern home by the Iroquois. In turn, Europeans came, ostensibly ...