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Downtown
Flint, Michigan
AmericaJR.com Takes You on a Tour
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Welcome
to Downtown Flint, Michigan
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A
look down Saginaw Street in downtown Flint, Michigan.
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WNEM-TV,
channel 5, (branded TV 5) is the CBS-affiliated television station
for Mid-Michigan that is licensed to Bay City.
The station operates the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate on its second
digital subchannel, known on-air as My 5.
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The
Flint River is a river in southeast Michigan, 142 mi long, that
flows through the city of Flint and the counties of Genesee, Lapeer,
and Shiawassee.
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The
Hamilton Dam exists downstream at the University of Michigan–Flint
campus in downtown Flint. Constructed in 1920, it also once serves
as a pedestrian bridge, but is now in severe disrepair. Because
of its dilapidation, The Michigan Department of Enivronmental Quality
ordered that steps be taken by 2008, and if that did not occur that
the river be lowered to reduce the use of the dam.
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The
University of Michigan–Flint (U of M–Flint, U–M–Flint,
or UMF) is a selective public institution located in Flint, Michigan,
United States. It is one of three campuses in the University of
Michigan system. The history of the
University of Michigan–Flint began in 1944, when the Flint
Board of Education requested University of Michigan to open their
Extension Office in Flint.
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Flint,
Michigan
Flint
is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along
the Flint River, 66 miles northwest of Detroit. As of the
2000 census, the city had a population of 124,943, making
it the fifth largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat
of Genesee County, which lies in the Flint/Tri-Cities region
of Michigan. Genesee County is also the entirety of Flint's
metropolitan area, the fourth largest metropolitan area in
Michigan. Flint is the largest city in the United States with
a one-syllable name. Flint is most known for being the birthplace
of the General Motors Corporation, and the Flint Sit-Down
Strike of 1936-37 that played a vital role in the formation
of the United Auto Workers. It has also become a symbol of
the decline in the auto industry - Flint area native Michael
Moore's 1989 documentary film Roger & Me deals
with the impact that the closure of several General Motors
manufacturing plants in the late 1980s had on Flint's population.
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