The Founding of Flint, Michigan

The founding of Flint, MI, and the origin of its nickname, "Vehicle City." 

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Credits 

Director/Editor: Marshall Fulmer 

Producers: Sam Fitzpatrick, Marshall Fulmer 

Research/Writer: Sam Fitzpatrick 

Narration: John Augustine, Kurt Miller, Jack Crowell 

Videography: Marshall Fulmer, Bob Przybylski 
Engineering: Matt Hock, Dave Nuechterlein 

Additional Content: Tom Bennett, Joe Yezak, Jeffery Vande Zande, John Augustine 

Special Thanks: Daniel Conner, Lawrence Gustin, Justin Wentenhall, Christine McNulty, Brittany Phalen, Paul Gifford, Todd Slisher, Greg Miller, Kevin Kirbitz, Freeman Greer, Maureen Netherland, Leslie Pielack, Ron Elliott, The Sloan Museum, The Buick Gallery, The Whaley House, The Genesee County Historical Society, Durant-Dort Office Building, GM Factory One, The Stockton Residence, The University of Michigan-Flint, Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways, Archives of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, Archive.org, Anita Heard, William Johnson, Erik Rodriguez, Quinn AME Chapel of Flint, MI, Reverend Sharinese Jackson of Quinn AME Chapel, the people of the City of Flint, Michigan for their generosity and hospitality. 

Documentary Sources/Special Thanks

David Buick’s Marvelous Motor Car: The men and the automobile that launched General Motors, Lawrence R. Gustin with Kevin Kirbitz, Forwards by Bob Lutz and Nicola Bulgari

Billy Durant: Creator of General Motors: The story of the flamboyant genius who helped lead America into the automobile age, Lawrence R. Gustin

Michigan highways from Indian trails to expressways; manual to accompany filmstrip. Prepared for the Michigan Historical Commission through the Munson Michigan History Fund, Philip P. Mason

History of Genesee County, Michigan: with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, 1879, Franklin Ellis

History of Genesee County, Michigan: Her people, industries, and institutions, 1916, Edwin Orin Wood

Colonel T.B.W. Stockton: Soldier, Engineer, Businessman, Dennis McMullen

The Black Pioneer in Michigan, Melvin E. Banner

Through the years in Genesee: An illustrated history, Alice Lethbridge

Genesee County: The City of Flint, Honorable E.H. Thompson of Flint, from the Detroit Post and Tribune of May 12, 1878

Picture History of Flint, Edited by Lawrence R. Gustin

The Whaley House, Richard P. Sharchburg, typescript, 02/19/76

Biography: Jacob Smith, typescript, Buick Gallery

The City of Flint, typescript, Buick Gallery

Fred A. Aldrich: A Biographical Sketch of honoring Fred A. Aldrich on his 89th birthday November 10th, 1950 Hotel Durant, Flint, Michigan, Buick Gallery

J. Dallas Dort: Citizen Compleat, Robert G. Schafer

Citizens Century 1871-1971, Clarence Young

Memory Lane: Pictorial History of Genesee County, Michigan, Compilied by the Flint Journal and Alfred P. Sloan Museum

Pictorial Souvenir of Flint, Michigan, “The Motor City”, by Franklin L Stevenson

The United States Census Bureau

www.Ancestry.com

Google Books (“About the Book” section pertaining to mentioning of Marie or, Slavery in the United States by Gustave de Beaumont)

Remembering Flint, Michigan: Stories from the Vehicle City, Gary Flinn

All used Michigan Historical Markers

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