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Racine

Port Gilbert

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located on Lake Michigan, S of Milwaukee; economy stimulated by WW II; manufactured goods include wax products, farm machinery, electrical equipment & processed food; site of Johnson Wax administration & research center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Born

Frances Myers (American, 1936-2015)

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