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ID: 7013765
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013765
Record Type:
administrative
Flint (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 00 57 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.0161
decimal degrees
Long: 083 41 06 W
degrees minutes
Long: -83.6856
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Flint river; trading post was opened here by Jacob Smith; became center for fur trading, agriculture & lumbering; timber supply encouraged growth of carriage making, which later developed into automobile industry.
Names:
Flint
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
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named for the Flint river in 1836
Hierarchical Position:
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North and Central America
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United States
(nation) (
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Michigan
(state) (
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Genesee
(county) (
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Flint
(inhabited place) (
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)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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settled as a trading post in 1819, town was laid out in 1836
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
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since 1836
industrial center (
C
)
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for automobiles & parts since early 20th cen., home of General Motors Company from 1908
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Flint..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 835
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 835
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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