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Genesee County - The Great Crossing
Jacob Smith, a Canadian-born German, and his Chippewa wife opened a trading post in 1819 where Flint is now located, then the site was called Grand Traverse or "the great crossing". Jacob Stevens, a farmer from New York state became the first settler in what then called Flint River in 1825.
Genesee was organized as a county under an act of the Legislature, approved March 8, 1836, which provided "that the county of Genesee shall be organized, and the inhabitants thereof entitled to all the rights and privileges to which, by law, the inhabitants of the other counties of this State are entitled."
The county seat of Genesee county is Flint.
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Our Great Neighbors
| Saginaw County | Tuscola County | ||
| Shiawassee County | Genesee County, Mich. | Lapeer County | |
| Livingston County | Oakland County | ||
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Page updated February 2023