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31 unusual facts about Wayne County


Anna Etheridge

Anna Etheridge was born Lorinda Anna Blair in 1839 in Wayne County, Michigan.

Canton–Plymouth Mettetal Airport

The airport lies two nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the central business district of Plymouth, in Wayne County.

Charles B. McClintock

Born in Paint Township, Wayne County, Ohio, near Beach City, Stark County, McClintock was educated in the public schools.

Charles Burlingame Waite

Charles Burlingame Waite (born in Wayne County, New York, 29 January 1824; died 1909) was a United States lawyer, jurist and author.

Charles G. Oakman

He was also a member of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors 1941-1952; served as executive secretary to the mayor of Detroit in 1941 and 1942; city controller 1942-1945; served four terms as city councilman 1947-1952; secretary of the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority 1948-1954 and general manager 1955-1973.

Conner's Creek, Michigan

Conner's Creek was an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Michigan.

Duboisville, Michigan

Duboisville was an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Michigan.

East Union, Ohio

East Union Township, Wayne County, Ohio and the unincorporated town of East Union within it

George Griswold

He was register of deeds from 1837 to 1841 and clerk of Wayne County from 1843 to 1847.

Hilgardite

In addition to the type locality it has been reported in Wayne County, Mississippi and in the Louann Salt Formation, Clarke County, Alabama in the United States and at the Penobsquis and Salt Springs evaporites, near Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada.

Irma Clark-Coleman

Beginning in 1967, Clark-Coleman held a variety of positions in Wayne County government; starting as a stenographer, and eventually serving as Assistant Director for Public Information to the county Road Commission, Media Relations Manager for Wayne County Executive William Lucas, Press Secretary to County Executive Ed McNamara and Director of Human Relations.

John E. Steele

Steele served as a law clerk to the Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Detroit from 1972 to 1974.

Kentucky Route 167

Kentucky Route 167 is a two-lane state highway located entirely within Wayne County, Kentucky in south-central Kentucky.

Kym Worthy

Kym L. Worthy (1957) is the current prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan, home to Detroit.

Laurie Perry Cookingham

In 1931, he was named city manager of Plymouth, Michigan and subsequently became the director of the work division of the Federal Emergency Relief Association in Wayne County, Michigan.

Mary Beth Kelly

She was previously a trial court judge on Michigan's Third Circuit Court in Wayne County.

Michigan Mega Conference

Member schools were predominantly located in suburban Wayne County, Michigan, mainly in Downriver.

Pediocactus winkleri

Pediocactus winkleri, commonly known as Winkler's cactus or Winkler's pincushion cactus, is a small cactus found only in Emery County, Utah and Wayne County, Utah in southern Utah.

Polly Berry

In her 1839 case, Polly deposed that she was held as a child in slavery in Wayne County, Kentucky by Joseph Crockett.

Richard LeBlanc

In 2006 he was elected to represent Michigan's 18th State House District, which is located in Wayne County and includes the entire city of Westland.

LeBlanc won easily in the heavily Democratic 18th District, which is located in Wayne County and includes the Detroit suburb of Westland.

Robert C. Wilson

He then became an assistant prosecuting attorney for Wayne County, Michigan.

Ronald Giles

Giles came to national attention on August 7, 2008, when he remanded Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to Wayne County Jail for violating the terms of his bond.

Stan L. Albrecht

Albrecht was raised on a farm near the tiny town of Fremont in Wayne County, Utah.

The Canton Historical Society and Museum

The Canton Center School was the last operating one-roomed school house in Wayne County, Michigan.

United States presidential election in Michigan, 1996

In typical form for the State, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan turned out mainly Democratic, and the Lower Peninsula turned out divided, but more Republican - with the notable exception of Detroit's highly populated Wayne County, which voted overwhelmingly Democratic.

Wayne County Airport Authority

Prior to the authority's founding, these two airports were operated directly by Wayne County.

Wayne County RESA

The Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency or Wayne RESA is a regional educational service agency for schools in Wayne County, Michigan.

Wayne County, Georgia

Clary is credited with convincing the Macon and Brunswick Railroad to locate its tracks so that they crossed the Atlantic and Gulf rails at Jesup.

Wayne County, Pennsylvania

Edward Staback, Democrat, 115th district, also Represents part of Lackawanna County.

Whitewater Memorial State Park

Four counties gave up part of their land so that the state of Indiana could create the memorial park: Fayette, Franklin, Union and Wayne.


Arab, Missouri

Arab is located along Route 51 at the intersection of State Highway C which runs east to Advance and State Highway P which runs west towards Lowndes and Greenville, near Stoddard County, and Wayne County.

Detroit mayoral elections, 2009

Other candidates included Dave Bing, a community leader and former NBA professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons, Freman Hendrix, former deputy mayor and a mayoral candidate in 2005, Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans, and others.

Dolores Gresham

Her Senate District 26 encompasses the counties of Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, McNairy and Wayne in the western part of the state.

Fanny Alger

The Algers stopped in Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana, and there Fanny met and, on November 16, 1838, married Solomon Custer, a non-Mormon, listed in various censuses as a grocer, baker, and merchant.

Ferdinand A. Brader

From drawings that survive it is known that Brader's Ohio pictures were done in 9 different adjoining counties: Portage, Medina, Wayne, Stark, Summit, Carroll, Columbiana, Mahoning and Tuscarawas continuing through 1895.

History of the Chinese Americans in Metro Detroit

As of 2002 Ethnic Chinese and Chinese American people are second largest Asian-origin ethnic group in the Wayne-Macomb-Oakland tri-county area in Metro Detroit.

History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit

By 2007 Metro Detroit, if defined as Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties had the United States's largest Arab American population, larger than that of Greater Los Angeles if that region was defined as Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties.

Hoon-Yung Hopgood

He represents roughly half of the cities which make up the Downriver area of Metro Detroit, as well as other cities in Wayne County.

Ingham County Courthouse

1969: The notorious Algiers Motel Murder Trial of a Detroit police officer was moved to the Ingham County Courthouse from Wayne County because of adverse publicity from John Hersey's 1968 book The Algiers Motel Incident.

Laban T. Moore

Born in Wayne County, Virginia (now West Virginia), near Louisa, Kentucky, Moore attended Marshall Academy in Virginia and was graduated from Marietta College in Ohio.

Skinners Falls–Milanville Bridge

The Skinners Falls – Milanville Bridge is a bridge spanning the Delaware River between Milanville, Pennsylvania and Skinners Falls, New York in Wayne County, Pennsylvania and Sullivan County, New York.

Stephen A. LaRoque

He represented the state's 10th House district, including constituents in Greene, Lenoir and Wayne counties.

The Spitfire Boys

The band was formed shortly afterwards by Littler as guitarist, alongside his friends, bassist Peter Griffiths and lead vocalist Michael Rigby, and Steve Platt a drummer, A short time later, while preparing for the gig, the band changed their name to The Spitfire Boys as a suggestion of Wayne County.