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Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools
Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools is a Michigan public school district teaching kindergarten through 12th grade. The district covers parts of Flint Township, Flint (minor), Mundy Township and Burton. History School District #8 was formed in 1837. With the donation of a section of Elijah Carman's farm land, which is now the corner of Bristol and Fenton Roads, in 1847 the district was renamed as the Carman School District. A dedication ceremony for the Robert N. Mandeville High School was held December 2, 1949 and was named after one of 16 students of the district's 1936 class who died in combat serving in the Air Force during World War II. In 1949 the Graham School District consolidated with the Dye School District. The consolidated Dye Schools built two elementary school, Dye in 1956 and Randels in 1961. In the 1950s, the Rankin School District was dissolved and parceled out to Carman, Lake Fenton, Grand Blanc, and Swartz Creek districts. The Hoover School District opene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flint, Michigan
Flint is the largest city and seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. Located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit, it is a principal city within the region known as Mid Michigan. At the 2020 census, Flint had a population of 81,252, making it the twelfth largest city in Michigan. The Flint metropolitan area is located entirely within Genesee County. It is the fourth largest metropolitan area in Michigan with a population of 406,892 in 2020. The city was incorporated in 1855. Flint was founded as a village by fur trader Jacob Smith in 1819 and became a major lumbering area on the historic Saginaw Trail during the 19th century. From the late 19th century to the mid 20th century, the city was a leading manufacturer of carriages and later automobiles, earning it the nickname "Vehicle City". General Motors (GM) was founded in Flint in 1908, and the city grew into an automobile manufacturing powerhouse for GM's Buick and Chevrolet divisions, especially after Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genesee County, Michigan
Genesee County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 406,211, making it the fifth-most populous county in Michigan. The county seat and population center is Flint (birthplace of General Motors). Genesee County is considered to be a part of the greater Mid Michigan area. The county was named after Genesee County, New York which in turn comes from the Seneca word Gen-nis'-hee-yo, meaning "Beautiful Valley". Genesee County comprises the Flint, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. A major attraction for visitors is Crossroads Village, a living history village north of Flint. Genesee County is noted for having had the fossil of an ancient whale known as '' Balaenoptera Lacepede'' unearthed in Thetford Township during quarry work and estimated at 11,000 years old. History Formative period Genesee County was created on March 28, 1835, from territory taken from Lapeer, Shiawassee and Saginaw counties. The county was attached to Oakla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River.''i.e.'', including water that is part of state territory. Georgia is the largest state by land area alone east of the Mississippi and Michigan the second-largest. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Its name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word (), meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan consists of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula resembles the shape of a mitten, and comprises a majority of the state's land area. The Upper Peninsula (often called "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a channel that joins Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genesee Intermediate School District
Genesee Intermediate School District is an Intermediate school district in Michigan serving the school districts that primarily lie within Genesee County. Schools Direct schools *Elmer A. Knopf Learning Center *Genesee Career Institute *Genesee Early College *Marion D. Crouse Instructional Center *Mott Middle College Public school districts *Atherton Community Schools * Beecher Community School District * Bendle Public Schools *Bentley Community Schools *Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools * Clio Area Schools *Davison Community Schools * Fenton Area Public Schools * Flint Community Schools * Flushing Community Schools * Genesee School District * Goodrich Area Schools * Grand Blanc Community Schools * Kearsley Community Schools * Lake Fenton Community Schools * LakeVille Community Schools * Linden Community Schools *Montrose Community Schools Montrose Community School District is a public school district in the northwestern corner of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flint Township, Michigan
The Charter Township of Flint, also known as Flint Township, is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 31,929 at the 2010 census. The City of Flint is adjacent to the township, but the two are administered autonomously. Background Wayne County was formed within the Northwest Territory covering the Lower Peninsula. The Saginaw Valley Treaty was signed with the Chippewa Indians in 1819. In 1836, the Pewanigo tribe of the Saginaw Indians sign a treaty with the US government that gave all remaining land in Genesee County for 13 sections of land west of the Mississippi River with the land to be sold for the Indians' benefits. :For additional information, see Genesee County, Michigan and Michigan. On March 9, 1833, the Township of Grand Blanc was organized which then included Flint Township survey area and many of the other survey township areas of the future Genesee County. The first permanent settlers in the area were Elijah Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundy Township, Michigan
The Charter Township of Mundy is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,082 at the 2010 census. The Survey township area that Mundy mostly covers is range 5 North and 5 East. Communities The township has two unincorporated communities within its borders: * Rankin, original known as Mundy Centre, is located at , located just west of an exit off U.S. Highway 23 on Grand Blanc Road, east of Jennings Road, south of Flint. The Township's offices and Rankin Elementary School are located there. Grand Blanc is several miles to the east by county roads. * Mundy is located at Linden and Baldwin Roads in the southwest part of the township, which was the location of the Mundy Post Office. History In 1833, the first land purchases in Mundy survey township area were made on sections 11-14, with all in the section purchased by 1837. The first settlement was in section 13 by Jason L. Austin, Daniel Williams and Eli Gilbert. Grand Blanc To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burton, Michigan
Burton is a city in Genesee County in the state of Michigan and a suburb of Flint. The population was 29,999 at the 2010 census, making Burton the second largest city in Genesee County. Neighborhoods * Belsay is on Belsay Road at the rail track north of I-69 and Court Street and south of Davison Road..Genesee County Map. J. Shively. State of Michigan Department of Information Technology Technology Center for Genographic Information. September 2007. * Lapeer Heights is at Belsay Road and Roberta Road and south of Lapeer Road.. History Although there were Native Americans and trappers whom lived on land earlier, and even some who attempted to settle by there, many of the original settlers of Burton came from the towns of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Fenton Community Schools
Lake Fenton Community School District is a public school district in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and in the Genesee Intermediate School District Genesee Intermediate School District is an Intermediate school district in Michigan serving the school districts that primarily lie within Genesee County. Schools Direct schools *Elmer A. Knopf Learning Center *Genesee Career Institute *Genesee .... The district is a classified as a "Class C" school district consisting of 27 square miles which takes in portions of the city of Fenton, Fenton Township, parts of Grand Blanc, Linden and Mundy townships. History The district originally began as a collection of six one-room schoolhouses that consolidated in two waves. O'Dell Schoolhouse was designated as School District No. 1 and was located at the corner of Baldwin and Torrey roads in Fenton Township on land owned by Lafayette O'Dell and later donated by his descendant William O'Dell. The school was started in 1837, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Blanc Community Schools
Grand Blanc Community Schools, or Grand Blanc School District, is a school district that serves the city of Grand Blanc, most of Grand Blanc Township, parts of the City of Burton, Mundy Township, and Atlas Township in Genesee County, Michigan, and a part of Holly Township, Michigan in Oakland County, Michigan. History The first school between Waterford and Mackinaw is believed to have been built by Edmund Perry around 1830 on his land in Grand Blanc near part of the Thread Creek. Sarah Dayton is believed to have been the first teacher at the Grand Blanc school, however other accounts suggest Daniel Wakefield taught there. The school was founded on arithmetics as the main focus. The school was later moved farther down Perry Road near the Henry Mason farm. In 1933, another schoolhouse was built in the northern section of Grand Blanc Township. When the township was officially organized in 1833, the boards of school inspectors divided it into school districts. By 1878 there wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bendle Public Schools
Bendle Public School District is a public school district in Burton, Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and in the Genesee Intermediate School District Genesee Intermediate School District is an Intermediate school district in Michigan serving the school districts that primarily lie within Genesee County. Schools Direct schools *Elmer A. Knopf Learning Center *Genesee Career Institute *Genesee .... History On December 9, 2003, a consolidation vote for the three all Burton school districts took place with Atherton and Bentley voters in favor of consolidation and Bendle voters were not in favor. Athletics Bendle High School is a class C school district. References External linksOfficial website School districts in Michigan Education in Genesee County, Michigan 1925 establishments in Michigan {{Michigan-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker College
Baker College is a private college with its main campus in Owosso, Michigan. It was founded in 1911 and has additional campuses throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The college has been accused of predatory practices. In 2022, a ProPublica and Detroit Free Press investigation titled "The Nonprofit College That Spends More on Marketing Than Financial Aid" highlighted its low graduation rate and high student debt rate compared to comparable institutions, as well as its unconventional management structure. That month, Baker College threatened legal action against a former faculty member relating to a non-disparagement clause included in a settlement with Baker. History Baker College started as Baker Business University, which was founded in Flint, Michigan, in 1911, by Eldon E. Baker. In 1965 it merged with Muskegon College when representatives of the Jewell family, who owned and managed Muskegon College, bought Baker Business University. The university changed its n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
