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GRAND RAPIDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRAND RAPIDS , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Wood county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., on both sides of the Wisconsin See also:river, about 137 M. N.W. of See also:Milwaukee. Pop. (1900) 4493, of whom 1073 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 6157; (1910) 6521. It is served by the Minneapolis, St See also:Paul & Sault Ste See also:Marie, the See also:Green See also:Bay & Western, the See also:Chicago & See also:North-Western, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul See also:railways. It is a railway and distributing centre, and has manufactories of See also:lumber, See also:sash, doors and blinds, hubs and spokes, woodenware, See also:paper, wood-pulp, See also:furniture and See also:flour. The public buildings include a See also:post See also:office, See also:court See also:house, city See also:hall, city See also:hospital and the T. B. See also:Scott See also:Free Public Library (1892). The city owns and operates its See also:water-See also:works; the electric-See also:lighting and See also:telephone companies are co-operative. Grand Rapids was first chartered as a city in 1869. That See also:part of Grand Rapids on the See also:west See also:bank of the Wisconsin river was formerly the city of See also:Centralia (pop. in 1890, 1435); it was annexed in 1900.

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