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| Did you know...
Groucho Marx' first puclic performance was in East Grand Rapids? The first professional baseball game played under lights at night was in East Grand Rapids? (1909) The first regularly scheduled airline flight service in the world flew from Grand Rapids to Detroit? (From Cassard Field) The New York Yankees, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehirg played in East Grand Rapids? A stern wheeler ship sank in Reeds Lake? (Four different Steamboats offered cruises on Reeds Lake from 1882-1956) The first schooling in East Grand Rapids took place in 1834? (A log cabin school house was built in 1841) East Grand Rapids is 3.404 square miles? (Reeds Lake is 283 acres and 52' deep, Fisk Lake 28 acres) The population of East Grand Rapids is 10,764? (2000 Census - American FactFinder) The average home in East Grand Rapids is 60 years old? (Only 4% were built after 1980) |
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