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CHEBOYGAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 21 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHEBOYGAN , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Cheboygan county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., on See also:South Channel (between Lakes Michigan and See also:Huron), at the mouth of Cheboygan See also:river, in the N. See also:part of the See also:lower See also:peninsula. Pop. (1890) 6235; (1900) 6489, of whom 2101 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1904) 6730; (1910) 6859. It is served by the Michigan Central and the See also:Detroit & Mackinac See also:railways, and by steamboat lines to See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee, Detroit, Sault Ste See also:Marie, See also:Green See also:Bay and other See also:lake ports; and is connected by See also:ferry with Mackinac and Pointe aux Pins. During a See also:great part of the See also:year small boats ply between Cheboygan and the See also:head of Crooked Lake, over the " Inland Route." Cheboygan is situated in a fertile farming region, for which it is a See also:trade centre, and it has See also:lumber See also:mills, tanneries, See also:paper mills, See also:boiler See also:works, and other manufacturing establishments. The See also:water-works are owned and operated by the See also:municipality. The city, at first called See also:Duncan, then See also:Inverness, and finally Cheboygan, was settled in 1846, incorporated as a See also:village in 1871, reincorporated in 1877, and chartered as a city in 1889.

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