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Ramona Park (East Grand Rapids, Mich.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Don Farrant Great Lakes History Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 440
Dates: Majority of material found within 1960-1980; 1770s - 1980s

Gordon E. Harrington collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 194
Abstract The Gordon E. Harrington collection includes documents, photographs, negatives, lantern slides and glass negatives, newspaper page layout negatives, and postcards reflecting Harrington's interest in Grand Rapids, Michigan history. Depicted is turn-of-the-century Grand Rapids, including the Powers Theater, Redmond Opera House, 1904 flood and ice jams, area businesses and homes and paddle and steamboats. The page layouts are for Harrington’s column, “Those Good Old Days,” written...
Dates: 1880-1986

Grand Rapids Railway records of Ramona Park

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Identifier: Collection 105
Abstract The Grand Rapids Railway records are primarily composed of contracts for various concessions at Ramona Park and/or Reeds Lake, at Grand Rapids and East Grand Rapids, Michigan, between 1932-1950. The Company began development of Ramona Park in 1904 under President Benjamin S. Hanchett, in an effort to get more people to ride the streetcar, especially on the weekends. It retained interest in the park until it closed in 1954. The contracts found here are made between various individuals or...
Dates: 1908-1950

Madeline Parker Groff collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 199
Abstract The Madeline Parker Groff collection documents the vaudeville career of two young physical culture devotees, Maurice Bellclaire and Benjamin Morris and their manager, Fred Paulo Mongeon, who also had his own act. Also documented is the creation, by Maurice Bellclaire and Fred Paulo, of a summer resort on the south shore of Reeds Lake, East Grand Rapids, Michigan, which catered mainly to vaudevillians and theatrical troupes. This resort operated from 1907 until the early 1920s. ...
Dates: 1903-1968