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Central Michigan: Local history: website: Grand Rapids Art Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Art: Renaissance to Modern art, with strength in European and American 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture Grand Rapids Children's Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Children's: website: Grand Rapids Public Museum: Grand ...
Diocese of Grand Rapids in red. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids.The diocese is located in the western portion of Michigan's lower peninsula and includes the city of Grand Rapids and 11 counties: Ionia, Kent, Lake, Mason, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, Osceola, and Ottawa.
Location of Michigan within the United States. The following is a List of Michigan State Historic Sites.The register is maintained by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, which was established in the late 1960s after the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. [1]
It now serves as a museum. Point aux Barques United States Life-Saving Service Station (former): This station opened in 1876 on the shore of Lake Huron, about two miles east of Huron City (near the present-day boat launch and campground at Lighthouse County Park). Two historic station buildings were saved from demolition when they were ...
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
The Diocese of Grand Rapids (Latin: Dioecesis Grandcataractensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in western Michigan in the United States. It comprises 80 parishes in 11 counties. It is a suffragan see to the Archdiocese of Detroit. The mother church of the diocese is the Cathedral of Saint Andrew in Grand Rapids.
The church building was constructed of Grand River limestone and completed in 1850. Grand Rapids continued to grow as did the parish and a new church was soon needed. In 1875, the present church was started on Sheldon Boulevard and completed a year later. On May 19, 1882 Pope Leo XIII established the Diocese of Grand Rapids. [3]
Huron County is at the northern tip of the Thumb, which is a sub region of Mid Michigan. It is a peninsula, bordered by Saginaw Bay to the west and Lake Huron to the north and east, and has over 90 miles (140 km) of shoreline, from White Rock on Lake Huron to Sebewaing on the Saginaw Bay.