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Grand Rapids

City in western Michigan, USA, on the Grand River, 40 km/25 mi above Grand Haven, where the river enters Lake Michigan; seat of Kent County; population (2000) 197,800. It is a centre of an agricultural and lumber-producing region; industries include the manufacture of furniture, motor bodies, plumbing fixtures, and electrical goods.

Gerald Ford, 38th president of the USA, lived here.

A fur-trading post was founded here in 1826, and the furniture industry developed in the 1840s; it was incorporated as a city in 1850. It is the seat of Calvin College (1876), Aquinas College (1923), and Kendall College of Art and Design (1956). The city and its surroundings have strong cultural ties with the Netherlands, and many Dutch immigrants have settled in the area.
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