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Grand Rapids becomes Furniture City
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Grand Rapids makers took the medal at the 1876 Centennial and the city became the furniture capital of America, with hardwood forests upriver and a river to power the mills. The industry moved south in the 1930s. What stayed behind was the office furniture trade.
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