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Encyclopedia > Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids is the name of several places in the United States of America:

  • Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Grand Rapids, Minnesota
  • Grand Rapids, Ohio
  • Grand Rapids, Wisconsin is the former name of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin

Grand Rapids is also the name of a town in Canada: Grand Rapids, Manitoba.


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Aug. 30, 2005: Famous slippers stolen from Grand Rapids display (771 words)
Grand Rapids police were investigating an anonymous call that Kelsch received at 9:50 a.m.
For Grand Rapids, the community 200 miles north of the Twin Cities where Garland lived until she was 4 1/2, the slippers were the footprints of a tourist legacy.
Garland, whose name was Frances Gumm when she lived in Grand Rapids, died in 1969 of a barbiturate overdose, but her legend lives on for the thousands of admirers who trek to the town in which she lived before moving to California as a preschooler.
Grand Rapids, Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (853 words)
The city of Grand Rapids is named for the local rapids in the Mississippi river, which was the uppermost limit of practical steamboat travel during the late 1800s.
Grand Rapids is the birthplace and early (until she was four) childhood home of legendary singer and actress Judy Garland.
Grand Rapids is the birthplace and former hometown of Bill Baker a member of the Miracle On Ice 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team that won the Gold Medal in Lake Placid, NY.
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