History of Flint, Michigan, USA

Journey back in time to Flint, Michigan, USA

• 1854 - Flint
  Flint, a post-township in the central part of Genesee county, Michigan. Pop., 3304.
  
  Flint, a thriving post-village in the above township, and capital of Genesee county, Michigan, on the river of its own name, 58 miles N. W. from Detroit. It is connected by a plank-road with Saginaw river. The ri...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1859
  FLINT, a township in Genesee co., in Michigan, U.S., 61 m NW of Detroit. Pop. 984.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
  
• 1895 - Flint
  Flint, a flourishing city and the capital of Genesee co, Mich., is situated on the Flint River, and on the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, 34 miles S.S.E. of East Saginaw, 64 miles N.N.W. of Detroit, and 66 miles W. of Port Huron. The Chicago & Lake Huron Railroad connects this place with Port Huro...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Union Industrial Bldg., Flint, Mich.
  
  a 16-story office high-rise building in downtown Flint, Michigan. It is the tallest building in the city. Designed by Wirt C. Rowland in 1928 and opened in 1930, it was built as the Union Industrial Bank Building to serve as the headquarters for Union Industrial Bank.
  
  On May 1, 1929, the Bank merged with Industrial Savings Bank to become Union Industrial Trust & Savings Bank. Several employees, including a senior vice president and two vice presidents, ... Read MORE...
  
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  First Baptist Church, Flint, Mich.
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  Catholic Church
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  Congregational Church
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  First Ward Park
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  Flint Wagon Works, Flint, Mich.
  
  The Flint Wagon Works was formed in 1882. It was purchased by Mr. Charles Crapser and was Flint's first incorporated company in 1884. Here they built wagons for all purposes such as travel, hauling and for family use. In 1900 the main building caught fire and burned to the ground, but was later rebuilt. In 1903 the Wagon Works purchased the Buick Company and eventually sold it to General Motors. cockleburcamp.com
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  Saginaw Street, showing Flint P. Smith Building, Flint, Mich.
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  Hotel Dresden, Flint, Mich.
  
  "The Hotel Dresden was opened on January 30, 1907 by carriage maker, auto builder and real estate developer William A. Paterson. Located at 700 S. Saginaw Street at the corner of Saginaw and Third Streets, it was named after Dresden, Germany, by Paterson’s daughter Mary, who was impressed when she visited there. At the time of its opening, it had 103 ‘guest chambers.’ The six-story building was considered to by Flint’s finest hotel until the rival Durant Hotel... Read MORE...
  
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  New Walsh Building, Flint, Mich.
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  St. Joseph Hospital, Flint, Michigan
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•  1901 - Four Killed by Train Today.
  Flint, Mich., June 14. - While MAJOR GEORGE W. BUCKINGHAM, his daughter ANNA, MRS. THOMAS APPLEGATE and her sister, MRS. GENERAL HUMPHREY, of Adrian, were out driving this morning they were struck by a Pere Marquette passenger train. All four were instantly killed. The body of Buckingham was hurled ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1905 - 11 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK.
  Coaches of Flier Bound for Chicago Ditched in Michigan.
  
  FLINT, Mich., June 8. - A fast through train on the Grand Trunk Railroad bound for Chicago from the East was wrecked this afternoon about ten miles east of here near Davison by spreading rails, three coaches being ditched.
  
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  Court Street M. E. Church, 1908
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  Buick Factory and Offices, 1909
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  High School, 1909
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  Central Fire Station, 1910
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  View on East Kearsley Street
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  Hamilton Avenue, showing Buick and Weston-Mott Offices
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  Walker School
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  Noon Hour at Buick and Weston-Mott Factories
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  "The Buick," Hamilton Ave.
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  Lakeside and City Park
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  Hurley Hospital, 1915
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  Y.M.C.A.
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• 1916
  Flint, a city and the capital of Genesee co., Mich., is situated on the Flint River and on the Chicago and Grand Trunk and the Pere Marquette Rs., 34 miles SSE. of East Saginaw. Flint contains a court-house, city-hall, the state institution for the deaf and dumb, an asylum for the insane, etc., and ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Flint Central High School
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  Court House and Jail
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  Masonic Temple
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  Brown Hall, Michigan School for the Deaf
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  Y.W.C.A.
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  South Saginaw Street from Hotel Durant, 1923
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•  Flint, Mich., Train – Automobile Crash, May 1934
  Four Killed In Crossing Crash
  
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  Flint, Mich., May 30. – A Pere Marquette passenger train struck an automobile carrying seven persons on a memorial day trip to a cemetery here today, killing four of the occupants and injuring three others so seriously they are not expected...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1935 - THREE LOSE LIVES IN PLANE CRASH AT FLINT, MICHIGAN.
  TRIMOTORED TRANSPORT HITS TENTS OF GROUND CREW; SIX INJURED.
  
  Flint, Mich., May 18 (AP) - At least three persons, including THEODORE E. KNOWLES, pilot, were killed when a trimotored transport, carrying passengers at the dedication of a new air field here today, struck tents occupied by a Selfridge...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1936 - EXPLOSION KILLS TWO, INJURES 10. GASOLINE TANK BLOWS UP AT FLINT, MICH., SERVICE STATION.
  Flint, Mich., Sept. 28 - (AP) - At least two persons were killed and 10 injured seriously today by an explosion which demolished the General Tire Company's service station in downtown Flint.
  
  The body of ALBERT W. HATTER, the office manager, was taken from the ruins. Firemen said they saw another ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1936 - General Motors Strike
  December 30 - Spurred by an unfounded rumor that work is going to be transferred to plants with weak union support, autoworkers begin a spontaneous sit-down strike at General Motors Corporation (GMC) plants in Flint.
  
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  Aerial View of AC Spark Plug Plant on Dort Highway, 1941
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  Office Building, Buick Motor Co., 1945
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  Flint Tavern Hotel
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• 1953 - The Flint-Beecher Tornado
  The Flint and Beecher communities of Michigan were struck with this tornado on the 8th of June, 1953, at 8:30 p.m. Tornadoes that strike at night are often more devastating because it becomes difficult to see what is taking place and this prevents people from getting out of the tornado’s path as muc...Read MORE...