Telegram-Herald (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,955 issues from 1886 to 1892, published in Grand Rapids, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
Grand Rapids, the largest city in western Michigan, lies on the Grand River which flows from its headwaters south of Jackson, through the state capital of Lansing to Grand Haven where it enters Lake Michigan. The first white settler to establish a permanent residence at Grand Rapids was Frenchman Louis Campau who arrived in 1826. In 1831, Campau purchased 72 acres from the federal government for $90 and named his tract (the core of the modern business district) “Grand Rapids.” In 1833, Grand Rapids was designated the seat of Kent County, and by 1838 it was formally organized as a village. Particularly significant in the promotion of the Grand Valley was John Ball, a graduate of Dartmouth College. Ball had settled in Grand Rapids and opened a law office in 1837, having previously explored the disputed Oregon Country. In 1842, he was appointed by Governor John S. Barry to select 300,000 acres of federal land to be sold for internal improvements. Ball used this position of extraordinary influence to further promote the settlement of Grand Rapids and surrounding communities.
By 1850, Grand Rapids was incorporated as a city. Around this time, the lumber industry took hold, with the first logs floated down river in 1854 to lumber mills at Grand Rapids. The arrival of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad in 1858 further stimulated the city’s growth. Following the exhibition of four Grand Rapids furniture makers’ wares at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia, the city…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress