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Flint

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
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.
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Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Born

Alice Asmar (American, born 1929)

John Torreano (American, born 1941)

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