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Although Lyon was able to obtain land near the river and created Canal Street to meet up with Campau's Monroe Avenue, eventually the Kent
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purchased land north of Campau's property. Campau surveyed and platted the village following Native
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and land was offered for sale. Campau bought 72 acres around his trading post and near the
Baptist mission for $ 90 on September 19 of that year. Living at the post were his wife and several members of his family. Some of his brothers and nephews followed him to Grand Rapids. One year later,
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Campau, who was described as short-tempered, and Lyon also disagreed about the naming of the town when it was platted. Lyon wanted to call it the village of Kent rather than Grand Rapids. Lyon and land speculators from New York had formed the Kent
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were involved in treaty negotiations that made them a lot of money. Louis was involved in the Treaty of Denver in 1855, and he received a sizeable payout for the negotiations. The Treaty of
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cities in which he had established trading posts. Campau was also involved in negotiations between the local Native
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with a row of 16 abutting row houses on Pearl Street that bordered Lyon's village, which made travel through the two villages cumbersome. Travelers had to go north to
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An 1833 plat map of Grand Rapids, depicting the two villages created by Louis Campau and Lucius Lyon that abutted at Pearl Street. Lyon followed the English grid system and Campau's plat followed Native American
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A sketch of Grand Rapids in 1831. The collection of houses across the river on its west side is the Baptist mission. The three buildings in the middle right are Louis Campau's trading post.
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was created in her memory and in so doing "perpetuated the name of a woman of rare grace and character who was held in high esteem by the early pioneers."
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