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0626170 [8] Website. cityofflint.com. Flint is the largest city and seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. Located along the Flint River, 66 miles (106 km) northwest of Detroit, it is a principal city within the region known as Mid Michigan. [9] [10] At the 2020 census, Flint had a population of 81,252, [5] making it the twelfth-most ...
- List of People From Flint, Michigan
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- Genesee County, Michigan
Genesee County (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ n ə s i / JEN-ə-see) is a county in...
- List of People From Flint, Michigan
4 days ago · The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan. Flint, city, seat (1836) of Genesee county, eastern Michigan, U.S. It lies along the Flint River, 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Detroit. It originated in 1819 as a trading post opened by Jacob Smith. Laid out beginning in 1830 and named for the river (which the Native Americans called Pawanunking ...
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Dec 3, 2018 · By Peter Hinterman on December 3, 2018 My History. On April 12 1861, General Beauregard of the newly-formed confederate army, opened fire on the Union boys stationed at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, beginning the bloodiest conflict fought on U.S. soil – The Civil War. Three days later, on April 15, President Abraham Lincoln issued ...
Hlonoto or ronoto means “flint” in Muskogean. It was named Rio de Capachequi by Hernando DeSoto when he discovered the river near Bainbridge, Friday March 5, 1540. The Spanish later called it the Rio Perdernales, pedernal meaning “flint” in Spanish. The Creek Indians, or Muskogee Nation, were a well-established and organized culture ...
Jan 3, 2019 · 1900-04 Flint Gets Mobile. In 1900, before a crowd of approximately 10,000 spectators, Judge Charles Wisner drove Flint’s first horseless carriage down Saginaw St. in the Labor Day Parade. The judge beamed as he rolled down the road to the “oohs” and “aahhs” of the city population.
May 1, 2019 · The Flint crowds could hardly contain their enthusiasm when Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Flint on the campaign trail in 1952. Not to be outdone, Adlai Stevenson held a rally in the city on Labor Day. Flint directly affected the Eisenhower campaign in the person of Arthur E. Summerfield, owner of one of Michigan’s largest GM dealerships.
Downtown Flint covers approximately one square mile near the center of the city, bounded roughly by Fifth Avenue to the north, I-69 to the south, I-475 to the east, and Thread Creek to the west, with most commercial activity focused along Saginaw Street and the University of Michigan-Flint Campus.
