Ah-Nab-Awen Park and Grand River Archaeological Site

The name translates, in Anishinaabe, to "resting place" — ground the Odawa and Potawatomi peoples occupied long before European contact. That history is documented on interpretive signage throughout the park, which sits on the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids near the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. The park has served as a gathering place in harder moments too: after a shooting spree killed seven people on July 7, 2011, the community held a candlelight vigil here, organized by a local human rights organization. Some ground earns its name.