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BIG RAPIDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 924 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BIG RAPIDS , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Mecosta county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., on both sides of the See also:Muskegon See also:river, 56 m. N. by E. of See also:Grand Rapids, in the See also:west central portion of the See also:lower See also:peninsula. Pop. (189o) 5303; (1900) 4686, of whom 881 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910, U. S. See also:census) 4519. It is served by the Pere See also:Marquette and the Grand Rapids & See also:Indiana See also:railways. Big Rapids is the seat of the Ferris See also:Institute (opened 1884, incorporated 1894), a large private co-educational school, founded by W. N. Ferris. The river, which falls 16 ft. within the city limits, is dammed a See also:short distance See also:south of the city, and 16,000 See also:horse-See also:power is generated, See also:part of which is transmitted to the city. The See also:principal manufactures are See also:lumber and See also:furniture, and saw-filing and filing-See also:room machinery. Big Rapids, named from the falls of the Muskegon here, was settled in 1854, was platted in 1859 and was chartered as a city in 1869.

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