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Dwight Goss. GRAND RAPIDS ROADS . Early Wagon Roads - Days of Stages - The Concord Stage - Stage In- cidents - Kalamazoo Plank Road . CHAPTER XIX . RAILWAYS . First Railroad Meeting - Penney's Prophecy - First Railway - The Grand Trunk ...
Dwight Goss. GRAND RAPIDS ROADS . Early Wagon Roads - Days of Stages - The Concord Stage - Stage In- cidents - Kalamazoo Plank Road . CHAPTER XIX . RAILWAYS . First Railroad Meeting - Penney's Prophecy - First Railway - The Grand Trunk ...
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... Grand - Smith Opera House - Auditorium - The Majestic . CHAPTER XXXIX . HOTELS . 1107 Guild's Tavern - Eagle Hotel - Bridge St. House - Morton House - Rath- bun House The ... GRAND RAPIDS CHAPTER I. PRE - HISTORIC GRAND CHAPTER XXXVII .
... Grand - Smith Opera House - Auditorium - The Majestic . CHAPTER XXXIX . HOTELS . 1107 Guild's Tavern - Eagle Hotel - Bridge St. House - Morton House - Rath- bun House The ... GRAND RAPIDS CHAPTER I. PRE - HISTORIC GRAND CHAPTER XXXVII .
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... Grand Rapids is about twenty - five miles from Lake Michigan at its nearest point and about thirty - one miles in a straight line from the mouth of Grand River . It is about forty miles by way of the river from Grand Rapids to Grand Haven .
... Grand Rapids is about twenty - five miles from Lake Michigan at its nearest point and about thirty - one miles in a straight line from the mouth of Grand River . It is about forty miles by way of the river from Grand Rapids to Grand Haven .
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... Grand Rivers . These valleys now constitute a remarkable depression in the surface of Michigan . This depres- sion nowhere attains an elevation greater than seventy - two feet above Lake Michigan ; the Grand Rapids reservoir is higher ...
... Grand Rivers . These valleys now constitute a remarkable depression in the surface of Michigan . This depres- sion nowhere attains an elevation greater than seventy - two feet above Lake Michigan ; the Grand Rapids reservoir is higher ...
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... Grand Rapids ; peaches , apples , plums , grapes , pears , cherries , quinces , all kinds of berries , currants and other small fruits are raised in large quantities for home ... Grand River , rising 4 HISTORY OF GRAND RAPIDS . 19.
... Grand Rapids ; peaches , apples , plums , grapes , pears , cherries , quinces , all kinds of berries , currants and other small fruits are raised in large quantities for home ... Grand River , rising 4 HISTORY OF GRAND RAPIDS . 19.
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acres April avenue Ball bank became block Board Bridge street building built burned Canal street Cemetery Charles Charles Shepard charter city of Grand Coldbrook Common Council Company corner Creek Daniel Detroit Division street early Edward elected engine house erected feet fire Frank Fred Fulton street George George W Grand Haven Grand Rapids Grand River Valley Grandville Henry hill Indian Ionia street James January John Joseph Julius Houseman July June Kalamazoo Kent county Lake Lake Michigan land Leonard located loss lots Louis Campau Lucius Lyon Lyon street Mary Medical Michigan miles mill Monroe street mounds organized Ottawa Park Pearl street platted President purchased Railroad Rix Robinson road Robert school house Secretary September settlers Smith Society spring Thomas Thornapple River tion town trade Treasurer trees Turner Valley City Vice-President village west side William Withey
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Page 318 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
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Page 35 - Are they here — The dead of other days ? — and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise i In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer.
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Page 11 - ... one mile, to the southeast corner of said section; thence west along the south line of sections five and six of town six nor,th. range eleven west, two miles to the west line of said town six north, range eleven west; thence...
Page 35 - Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; - a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
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