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Place Name
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Grosse Pointe
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Pronunciation
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GROS
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Place Status (Type)
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suburb
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Location
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Wayne County, Michigan (MI), United States, North America
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Latitude
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42°22'N
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Longitude
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82°54'W
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Grosse Pointe
(GROS), name referring to 5 residential suburbs
of Detroit, NE Wayne co., and SE of Macomb co., SE Mich.; 42°22'N
82°54'W. They include the city of Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Farms,
Grosse Pointe Park, Grosse Pointe Shores, and Grosse Pointe Woods. The
area was originally settled, and called Grosse Pointe Park, by the Fr.
along the lake shore c.1712. Farms clustered there became organized as
Grosse Pointe township c.1846. As the nearby city of Detroit boomed
with the auto industry, many wealthy industrialists established large
estates in the outlying area. Henry Ford's family, including his son
Edsel, built their homes there. Of interest in the Grosse Pointe area
are the mansion of Russell A. Alger, now a war memorial center, and a
branch of the Detroit Inst. of Arts.
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