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Name Ann Arbor
Type Settlement
Usage English (American)
Other Forms FormsAnnarbour (earliest use)
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Meaning & History
The name of a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the county seat of Washtenaw County located in the south of the state.
It is made up of the given name ANN, from the wives of land speculators and founders, John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey, and arbor, referring to a grove of trees and, in this particular case, the stands of bur oak that was in the land they had purchased.
It is made up of the given name ANN, from the wives of land speculators and founders, John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey, and arbor, referring to a grove of trees and, in this particular case, the stands of bur oak that was in the land they had purchased.