Local History

Platted in 1838 by Amos and Pierpoint E. Spicer, Benjamin Knight, Samuel Hamlin and C. C. Darling, all from Ohio.  Incorporated as a village by the supervisors in 1859 and by the legislature in 1871.  Incorporated as a city in 1881.  Named from the rapids of the nearby Grand River and from the county, which had been named for John H. Eaton, secretary of war in Andrew Jackson's cabinet.

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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