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Place Name
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Kent
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Population
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28,835 (1990)
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Location
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Portage County, Ohio (OH), United States, North America
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Latitude
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41°08'N
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Longitude
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81°22'W
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Kent
, industrial city (1990 pop. 28,835), Portage co.,
NE Ohio; 41°08'N 81°22'W. Settled in 1805 as Franklin Mills,
combined with Carthage and renamed as Kent 1863, inc. as a city 1920.
Mfg. includes machinery and food. Main campus of Kent State Univ.,
where four young people were killed by Ohio Natl. Guardsmen during a
1970 protest of the Vietnam War. Liquid-crystal research center
sponsored by Natl. Science Foundation and state of Ohio.
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