Grand Rapids, Michigan, Shopping

Welcome to the Bonosearch page for Shopping in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Shopping, Michigan

Grand Rapids is located in Kent County (is the county seat), and in the West-Southwest Region. This city lies north of Kalamazoo between Muskegon and Lansing, along Interstate 96 on the banks of the Grand River.

Louis Campau, a French trader, set up a trading post here in 1826. He purchased land from the federal government - for $90 - that would become Grand Rapids' downtown district. By 1850, the city had one furniture factory and several private furniture piece shops. The river was used to generate power for the factory and bring logs from the forests upstream. By 1876, Grand Rapids became known worldwide for fine furniture production. The city became the first in the United States to add fluoride to its drinking water in 1945.

Today, Grand Rapids is considered the world leader in office furniture production. Reflecting a diversified ethnic mix, Grand Rapids holds festivals throughout the year. The city boasts more than 2,000 acres of parklands.

Bonosearch allows you to get precise results when you only want to consider a certain kind of Web site in a specific location: city, region, or state. For example, with a regular search engine, if you wanted to find "shoes" as a feature for "Shopping" in Grand Rapids and Michigan, you would type into the search box something like:

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...and the search engine would look for all four keywords. With Bonosearch, you decide in advance what location you want and what category. The Bonosearch staff has identified hundreds of thousands of URLs belonging to real people, places, businesses, and organizations and identified the location and best category for each, so when you use Bonosearch, you only enter the keyword. Spurious results are mostly avoided.