Download or read book Grand River Avenue written by Jon Milan and Gail Offen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand River Avenue details the history of this historical Michigan roadway, which has served as a footpath, wagon rut, and ultimately a two-lane highway. Grand River Avenue, or Michigan US-16 as it was ultimately designated, is one of Michigan's true Blue Highways--an original two-lane, blacktop road still serving as a direct path through roadside America. Originally a Native American trail, this ancient path has been a westbound route from the Straits of Detroit to the eastern shores of Lake Michigan for more than 1,000 years. Over time, it has served as a footpath, horse trail, wagon rut, stagecoach route, plank road, and ultimately a two-lane highway that gave some of America's earliest motorists their first taste of long-distance automobile travel.

Download or read book Grand River written by Jim Bedford and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The longest river in Michigan, the Grand offers a lot of great flyfishing spots. Jim Bedford, with more than 50 years of experience on this river, and Tony Pagliei, flyfishing guide on the Grand, professional fly-tier, and avid fly-fisher, make a great team as they unlock the secrets of this Great Lakes treasure.The Grand River River Journal is a fascinating book filled with local stories, points of interest, and colorful characters. Its full-color photographs on thick glossy paper make it as attractive as it is useful. Complete with a detailed river map, color fly plates, and a suggestion list of flies and how to fish them with greater success, Grand River River Journal is an excellent ?get-to-know-the-water? book on this famous Michigan river.

Download or read book History of the City of Grand Rapids Michigan written by Albert Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Michigan Grand River Watershed Council written by Michigan Grand River Watershed Council and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gathered at the River written by James D. Bratt and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grand River written by Norma Lewis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching 265 miles, the majestic Grand River is Michigan's longest waterway, and it was once considered one of the Midwest's most important. The river starts as a trickle just south of Jackson and gains power as it surges toward Lake Michigan in Grand Haven. Trappers first used the river to trade with the Native American villages along its banks. Later, the lumber industry transported logs via the Grand. The river shaped the towns and cities that grew up along its banks, providing them with transportation and power for manufacturers, including the once-renowned Grand Rapids furniture industry. Fertile farmlands have always played an important role in the history of the Grand River Valley. Today, the river is used primarily for recreation, including boating, fishing, and, in Grand Ledge, rock climbing.

Download or read book Improvement of Grand River Michigan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grand River written by Joyce Benvenuto and published by Thunder Bay Press (MI). This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In poetry, Joyce Benvenuto brings alive the generations of people who have lived along Grand River, both the river and the road, for the past 160 years. A number of the poems printed here have been previously published in various poetry journals over many years. Benvenuto brings them together to showcase Michigan and its varied decades as her poetry crosses the state from shore to shore.

Download or read book Grand River Basin Michigan written by Grand River Basin Coordinating Committee and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Grand Rapids written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crisis on the Grand written by Ronald E. Kuiper and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Michigan s Looking Glass River written by Ted Reuschel and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the intriguing story of a kayak journey down an historic Michigan river, blending a modern-day adventure with the history of the original native inhabitants, and the brave pioneers who followed the old but famous Indian trail from the young city of Detroit westward into an essential wilderness. It is a detailed yet narrative account of their trials and hardships in establishing homes, farms, and villages along the way. Much has changed, but much has not. How does such a relatively wild and little-known river as the Looking Glass still exist within just a few miles of the state capital at Lansing, Michigan? Today each of us can still enjoy the adventure and discovery that goes with floating upon its surface, as I did. This is the account of the Looking Glass River, both past and present.

Download or read book Water Resources of the Grand Rapids Area Michigan written by Gilbert Joseph Stramel and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grand River Basin Michigan pt 2 Appendix Q Alternative plans plates for plan A written by Grand River Basin Coordinating Committee and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Connections Along the Grand River written by Kimberly McKee and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The state's longest river, more than 250-mile waterway flows through Jackson, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, and the communities in between before reaching Lake Michigan. In its focus on West Michigan, Connections Along the Grand River illustrates the ways the Grand River indelibly shapes the communities of the region. The histories captured in this magazine provide a portrait into the lives of those who live along this magnificent waterway."--Page [6].

Download or read book The Muskegon written by Jeff Alexander and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muskegon is a derivation of a Native American word meaning "river with marshes." Jeff Alexander examines the creation, uses of, devastation, and restoration of Michigan's historic and beautiful Muskegon River. Four of the five Great Lakes touch Michigan's shores; the state's shoreline spans more than 4,500 miles, not to mention more than 11,000 inland lakes and a multitude of rivers. The Muskegon River, the state's second longest river, runs 227 miles and has the most diverse features of any of Michigan’s many rivers. The Muskegon rises from the center of the state, widens, and moves westward, passing through the Pere Marquette and AuSable State Forests. The river ultimately flows toward Lake Michigan, where it opens into Muskegon Lake, a 12 square-mile, broad harbor located between the Muskegon River and Lake Michigan. Formed several thousand years ago, when the glaciers that created the Great Lakes receded, and later inhabited by Ottawa and Potawatomi Indians, the Muskegon River was used by French fur trappers in the 1600s. Rich in white pine, the area was developed during the turn-of-the-century lumber boom, and at one time Muskegon Lake boasted more than 47 sawmills. The Muskegon was ravaged following settlement by Europeans, when rivers and streams were used to transport logs to the newly developing cities. Dams on rivers and larger streams provided power for sawmills and grain milling, and later provided energy for generating electricity as technology advanced. There is now an ambitious effort to restore and protect this mighty river's natural features in the face of encroaching urbanization and land development that threatens to turn this majestic waterway into a mirror image of the Grand River, Michigan's longest river and one of its most polluted.

Download or read book Grand River and Joy written by Susan Messer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With unsparing candor, Susan Messer thrusts us into a time when racial tensions sundered friends and neighbors and turned families upside down. The confrontations in Grand River and Joy are complex, challenging, bitterly funny, and---painful though it is to acknowledge it---spot-on accurate." ---Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After and Half a Heart "Grand River and Joy is a rare novel of insight and inspiration. It's impossible not to like a book this well-written and meaningful---not to mention as historically significant, humorous, and meditative." ---Laura Kasischke, author of The Life Before Her Eyes and Be Mine Halloween morning 1966, Harry Levine arrives at his wholesale shoe warehouse to find an ethnic slur soaped on the front window. As he scavenges around the sprawling warehouse basement, looking for the supplies he needs to clean the window, he makes more unsettling discoveries: a stash of Black Power literature; marijuana; a new phone line running off his own; and a makeshift living room, arranged by Alvin, the teenaged tenant who lives with his father, Curtis, above the warehouse. Accustomed to sloughing off fears about Detroit's troubled inner-city neighborhood, Harry dismisses the soaped window as a Halloween prank and gradually dismantles “Alvin's lounge” in a silent conversation with the teenaged tenant. Still, these events and discoveries draw him more deeply into the frustrations and fissures permeating his city in the months leading up to the Detroit riots. Grand River and Joy, named after a landmark intersection in Detroit, follows Harry through the intersections of his life and the history of his city. It's a work of fiction set in a world that is anything but fictional, a novel about the intersections between races, classes and religions exploding in the long, hot summers of Detroit in the 1960s. Grand River and Joy is a powerful and moving exploration of one of the most difficult chapters of Michigan history. Susan Messer's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, and Colorado Review. She received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in prose, an Illinois Arts Council literary award for creative nonfiction, and a prize in the Jewish Cultural Writing Competition of the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture. Cover photograph copyright © Bill Rauhauser and Rauhauser Photographic Trust