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GRAND HAVEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 349 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRAND HAVEN , a See also:city, See also:port of entry, and the See also:county-seat of See also:Ottawa county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., on See also:Lake Michigan, at the mouth of Grand See also:river, 30 M. W. by N. of Grand Rapids and 78 M. E. of See also:Milwaukee. Pop. (1900) 4743, of whom 1277 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1904) 5239; (1910) 5856. It is served by the Grand See also:Trunk and the Pere See also:Marquette See also:railways, and by steamboat lines to See also:Chicago, Milwaukee and other lake ports, and is connected with Grand Rapids and See also:Muskegon by an electric See also:line. The city manufactures pianos, refrigerators, See also:printing presses and See also:leather; is a centre for the shipment of See also:fruit and See also:celery; and has valuable See also:fisheries near—fresh, See also:salt and smoked See also:fish, especially See also:whitefish, are shipped in considerable quantities. Grand Haven is the port of entry for the Customs See also:District of Michigan, and has a small export and import See also:trade. The See also:municipality owns and operates its See also:water-See also:works and electric-See also:lighting plant. A trading See also:post was established here about 1821 by an See also:agent of the See also:American See also:Fur See also:Company,.but the permanent See also:settlement of the city did not begin until 1834. Grand Haven was laid out as a See also:town in 1836, and was chartered as a city in 1867.

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