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See also:BAY See also:CITY , a city and the See also:county seat of Bay county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., on the See also:Saginaw See also:river, about 2 M. from its entrance into Saginaw Bay and about 108 m. N.N.W. of See also:Detroit. Pop. (1890) 27,839; (19o0) 27,628, of whom 8485 were See also:foreign-See also:born, including 2413 See also:English-Canadians, 1743 Germans, 1822 Poles—the city has a See also:Polish weekly newspaper--and 1075 See also:French-
anadians; (1910, See also:census) 45i166. Bay City is served by the Michigan Central, the Pere See also:Marquette, the See also:Grand See also:Trunk and the Detroit & Mackinac See also:railways, and by See also:lake steamers. The city extends for several See also:miles along both sides of the river, and is in a See also:good farming See also:district, with which it is connected by See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone roads. Among the public buildings are the Federal See also:building, the city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall and the public library. The city has See also:lumber and fishing interests (See also:perch, See also:whitefish, See also:sturgeon, pickerel, See also:bass, &c. being caught in Saginaw Bay), large See also:machine shops and foundries (value of products in 1905, $1,743,155, or 31 % of the See also:total of the city's factory products), and. various manufactures, including See also:ships (wooden and See also:steel), wooden See also:ware, See also:wood-See also:pipe, See also:veneer, railroad machinery, See also:cement, See also:alkali and See also:chicory. A See also:salt See also:basin underlies the city, and, next to the lumber See also:industry, the salt industry was the first to be See also:developed, but its importance has dwindled, the product value in 1905 being $20,098 out of $5,620,866 for all factory products. Near the city are valuable See also:coal mines, and there is one within the city limits. At Essexville (pop. in 1910, 1477), N.E., at See also:Banks, N.W., and at Salzbury, S.W. of Bay City, are See also:beet-See also:sugar factories—sugar See also:beets are extensively grown in the vicinity. See also:Alcohol is made from the refuse See also:molasses obtained from these beet-sugar factories.
The See also:municipality owns and operates the See also:water-See also:works and electric-See also:lighting plant. The settlements of See also:Lower Saginaw and Ports-mouth were made in 1837, and were later See also:united to See also:form Bay City, which was incorporated as a See also:village in 18J9, and chartered as a city in 1865. In 1905 See also:West Bay City (pop. 1900, 13,119) and Bay City were consolidated.
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