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Ann Arbor, Michigan

History

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michi-gan and the county seat of Washtenaw Coun-ty. It is the state’s seventh largest city with a

population of 114,024 as of the 2000 Census,of which 36,892 (32%) are university or col-lege students. The city, which is part of theDetroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI CSA, is namedafter the spouses of the city’s founders andfor the stands of trees in the area.

Ann Arbor was founded in January 1824 byJohn Allen and Elisha Rumsey, both of whomwere land speculators. On May 25, 1824, thetown plot was registered with Wayne Countyas “Annarbour”. The city became the seat ofWashtenaw County in 1827, and was incorpo-rated as a village in 1833. The town became aregional transportation hub in 1839 with thearrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, andwas chartered as a city in 1851. During the1960s and 1970s, the city gained a reputation

as a center for liberal politics. During the 20thcentury, the economy of Ann Arbor under-went a gradual shift from a manufacturingbase to a service and technology base, whichaccelerated in the 1970s and 1980s.

Ann Arbor is home to the University ofMichigan, established in 1837. As the domi-nant institution of higher learning in the cityand one of the top public universities in theworld, the university provides Ann Arborwith a distinct college-town atmosphere. Theuniversity shapes Ann Arbor’s economy sig-nicantly as it employs about 30,000 workers,including about 7,500 in the medical center.The city’s economy is also centered on high-technology, with several companies drawn to

the area by the university’s research and de-velopment money, and by its graduates. Onthe other hand, Ann Arbor has increasinglyfound itself grappling with the effects ofsharply rising land values and gentrication.

Culture

Many Ann Arbor cultural attractions andevents are sponsored by the University of

Michigan. Several performing arts groupsand facilities are on the university’s campus,as are museums dedicated to art, archaeology,and natural history and sciences (see Muse-ums at the University of Michigan). Regionaland local performing arts groups not associ-ated with the university include the Ann Ar-bor Civic Theatre; the Arbor Opera Theater;the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra; the AnnArbor Ballet Theater; the Ann Arbor CivicBallet (established in 1954 as Michigan’s rstchartered ballet company); and PerformanceNetwork, which operates a downtown the-ater frequently offering new or nontraditionalplays.

The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, located

in a renovated and expanded historic down-town re station, contains more than 250 in-teractive exhibits featuring science and tech-nology. Multiple art galleries exist in the city,notably in the downtown area and around theUniversity of Michigan campus. Aside froma large restaurant scene in the Main Street,South State Street, and South University Av-enue areas, Ann Arbor ranks rst among U.S.cities in the number of booksellers and books

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Events

Several annual events – many of them cen-tered on performing and visual arts – drawvisitors to Ann Arbor. One such event is theAnn Arbor Art Fairs, a set of four concurrentjuried fairs held on downtown streets, whichbegan in 1960. Scheduled on Wednesdaythrough Saturday in the third week of July,the fairs draw upward of half a million visi-tors. One event that is not related to visualand performing arts is Hash Bash, held on therst Saturday of April , ostensibly in supportof the reform of marijuana laws.. It has beencelebrated since 1971.

People

A person from Ann Arbor is called an “AnnArborite”, and many long-time residentscall themselves “townies”. The city itselfis often called A² (“A-squared”) or A2 (“Atwo”), and, less commonly, Tree Town. Re-cently, some youths have taken to callingAnn Arbor Ace Deuce or simply The Deuce.With tongue-in-cheek reference to the city’sliberal political leanings, some occasionallyrefer to Ann Arbor as The People’s Republicof Ann Arbor or 25 square miles surroundedby reality, the latter phrase being adaptedfrom Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus’s de-scription of Madison, Wisconsin. Ann Arbor

sometimes appears on citation indexes as anauthor, instead of a location.

sold per capita. The Ann Arbor District Li-brary maintains four branch outlets in addi-tion to its main downtown building; in 2008

a new branch building replaced the branchlocated in Plymouth Mall. This new branchis called the Traverwood Branch, and openedon June 30, 2008.