Back in 2000, Grand Rapids Township published a history of the township. A few copies are left, and the township office will sell one of them to you for $15. I recommend it.
It is not a great work of history — it is of the this happened, then that happened, school of history. But it has a lot of information that will be of interest to those who live here. Did you know, for example, that Grand Rapids Township is one of the oldest units of government in the State of Michigan? It was founded in 1834, four years before the village of Grand Rapids. Michigan became a state only in 1837.
The township originally extended to the Grand River, but a series of annexations by the city kept reducing its size. I’ll be posting tidbits from the book as time goes on — but I recommend stopping by the township hall to buy a copy.
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