Kent

Wyoming, MI

The 126th Infantry Regiment has been in active military service since 1855.

Ada, MI

An act of the legislature in 1867 authorized Ada Township to borrow up to three thousand dollars for the purpose of building or repairing...

Vergennes Township, MI

In the early 1830s the settlement known as Alton grew up in this vicinity.

Grand Rapids, MI

Long before contact with Euro-Americans, Native Americans lived near Baw-wa-ting, “the rapids.

Grand Rapids, MI

Leonard Benjamins (1840-1902) emigrated from the Netherlands with his family in 1847, settling in the Grand Rapids area.

Grand Rapids, MI

In 1918, eight years after the Boy Scouts of America incorporated, Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church chartered Boy Scout Troop 15 with a...

Grand Rapids, MI

Both of these schools are institutions of the Christian Reformed Church, which was founded in 1857 by Dutch immigrants whose religious...

Cannon Twp, MI

The state legislature organized Cannon Township as “Churchtown” in 1846.

Grand Rapids, MI

Established in 1864, the Cascade Christian Church is the oldest of its brotherhood in Kent County.

Grand Rapids, MI

Built in 1898, Cascade Township Hall is a rare example of a well-preserved nineteenth century frame town hall.

Grand Rapids, MI

Father Frederic Baraga established the Mission of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the west side of the Grand River in 1833 and began Catholic...

Grand Rapids, MI

The first Central High School opened in 1849 in a stone building three blocks to the west.

Grand Rapids, MI

Central Reformed Church was formed on April 23, 1918, by the merger of the first two Reformed churches in the Grand Rapids area: the...

Caledonia, MI

David Kinsey, the founder of Caledonia village, settled on this site on April 13, 1856.

Lowell, MI

John W. and Silas S. Fallas settled here in 1837, founding a village, which soon boasted a chair factory, sawmill, and gristmill.

Vergennes Township, MI

Fallasburg was settled in 1837 by two brothers from Tompkins County, New York.

Grand Rapids, MI

On September 18, 1836, twenty-two persons founded one of the first Protestant congregations in Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, MI

On September 18, 1836, twenty-two persons, under the direction of the Reverend Silas Woodbury of Kalamazoo, founded one of the first...

Grand Rapids, MI

In 1869, the Reverends Nathan A. Reed and Isaac Butterfield merged their two churches into the Baptist Church of the City of Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, MI

The first cabinet maker in Grand Rapids was William Haldane, who in 1837 set up a shop in his home at the corner of Pearl and Ottawa...

Grand Rapids, MI

Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth president of the U.S., lived here from age eight to seventeen (1921-1930).

Rockford, MI

The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad (GR&I) reached Algoma Township in 1867.

Grand Rapids, MI

In 1853 John and Christina Cutler and their ten children came to this area from New York and founded the town of Cutlerville.

Vergennes Township, MI

John Wesley Fallas built this house in 1842 in the village which bears his family name.

Grand Rapids, MI

In 1870 six women who had been meeting for a year to study history, organized Grand Rapids’s first Ladies Literary Association.

Grand Rapids, MI

This house was built in 1908-09 for local clothier Meyer S. May and his wife, Sophie Amberg.

Grand Rapids, MI

Built between 1865 and 1870 by James and Hanna Gallup, this Victorian-style villa is one of the oldest homes in the Heritage Hill...

Grand Rapids, MI

During the late nineteenth century, Grand Rapids residents relied on private companies to provide purified drinking water.

Algoma Twp, MI

The Pine Island Drive Bridge is a rare Michigan example of a reinforced concrete rainbow arch bridge.

East Grand Rapids, MI

In the 1880s the Grand Rapids Street Railway Company began developing a trolley park at the end of its line at Reeds Lake.

Lowell, MI

In 1873 Robert W. Graham designed and built this Italianate structure as a two-family residence.

Grand Rapids, MI

The Massillon Bridge Company of Ohio built this thirty-one thousand-dollar, four-span bridge for Grand Rapids in 1886.

Grand Rapids, MI

On August 5, 1852, Father Charles Louis DeCeuninck purchased ten acres of land for the formation of Saint Andrew’s Cemetery.

Grand Rapids, MI

Designed by local architect William G. Robinson, this castle-like edifice was constructed in 1884-86 for Colonel E. Crofton Fox and his...

Grand Rapids, MI

In 1962, grocers Hendrik and Fred Meijer pioneered the combination of two popular retail models, discount department stores and...

Sparta, MI

In 1888 the Toledo, Saginaw and Muskegon Railway (TS&M) built this depot.

Grand Rapids, MI

In 1884 William N. Rowe, Conrad G. Swensberg, M. S. Crosby, and R. M. Lawrence founded the Valley City Milling Company in Grand Rapids.

Lowell, MI

In 1843 a group of twelve emigrants from New England and western New York State founded the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Vergennes.

Grand Rapids, MI

The Michigan Veterans’ Facility (formerly the Michigan Soldiers’ Home) was authorized by Act 152 of the Public Acts of 1885, which...

Grand Rapids, MI

Villa Maria was founded by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in 1904 as a haven for destitute young women.

Grand Rapids, MI

This elegant and perfectly preserved Victorian mansion was built for Carl G. A. Voigt in 1895.

Belmont, MI

William Hyser (1826-1909), pioneer surgeon and Civil War captain, came to Plainfield Township in 1850, when it was a lumber center.