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| | BAY CITY - LoveToKnow Article on BAY CITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Bay City is served by the Michigan Central, the Pere Marquette, the Grand Trunk and the Detroit and Mackinac railways, and by lake steamers. |
 | | A salt basin underlies the city, and, next to the lumber industry, the salt industry was the first to be developed, but its importance has dwindled, the product value in 1905 being $20,098 out of $5,620,866 for all factory products. |
 | | The settlements of Lower Saginaw and Portsmouth were made in 1837, and were later united to form Bay City, which was incorporated as a village in 1859, and chartered as a city in 1865. |
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