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 | | It is served by the Pere Marquette, the Manistee and Grand Rapids, the Manistee and North-Eastern, and the Manistee and Luther railways, and by steamboat lines to Chicago, Milwaukee and other lake ports. |
 | | Manistee has large lumber interests, is the centre of an extensive fruit-growing region, and has various manufactures, including lumber and salt.1 The total value of the factory product in 1904 was $3,256,601. |
 | | Manistee (the name being taken from a former Ottawa Indian village, probably on Little Traverse Bay, JMich.) was settled about 1849, and was chartered as a city in 1869, the charter of that year being revised in 1890. |
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