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Genesee County, Michigan
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Genesee County, Michigan�s fourth largest, is located in
southeastern Michigan. It was organized in 1836, named after Genesee County, New
York, in an effort to attract settlers from there. The name means:
"Beautiful Valley," which is a good description of the area. It
attracted settlers as early as 1829, with Jacob Smith from Quebec as the first.
Others, such as Luman Beach, Addison Stewart, Rubin Mc Crory and Simon King came
a few years later, founding the Village of Geneseeville, just a few miles east
of Mt. Morris, (which now
is the site of the famous Huckleberry Railroad.) The county grew quickly during
the lumber era, especially Flint,
which was a good location for sorting and processing lumber floated down the
Flint River. A key player in the development of the county was William Durant,
who started a carriage factory in Flint, and later invested in a then struggling
auto company by the name of Buick. In 1909, he mass-produced a car designed by
Louis Chevrolet, and the rest was history: a merger called General Motors. |
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