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Glance at the Past - Bridge Banquet

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10/12/11 03:28pm
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When the soldiers returned from the south in 1865, Grand Rapids hosted a "welcome home" banquet for them on the only space long enough for a table to hold them all: the Pearl Street Bridge.
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Civil War soldiers are greeted with a lavish banquet upon their return to Grand Rapids.

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