Bay County past and present . rsouth of the British Isles, Holland, Belgium and even Switzerland, andthat we in Bay County live no farther from the equator than the peo-ple of Marseilles in southern France, or than those of the famouscities of Pisa and Florence in the warm and sunny Italy. Returning home, let us examine some ofthe general facts about our citj^ and only four other counties of Michiganare smaller. Bay County is equal to more thanone-third of the entire state of Rhode Island,and extends over about one-half of one degreeof latitude and of longitude. It is located a
Bay County past and present . rsouth of the British Isles, Holland, Belgium and even Switzerland, andthat we in Bay County live no farther from the equator than the peo-ple of Marseilles in southern France, or than those of the famouscities of Pisa and Florence in the warm and sunny Italy. Returning home, let us examine some ofthe general facts about our citj^ and only four other counties of Michiganare smaller. Bay County is equal to more thanone-third of the entire state of Rhode Island,and extends over about one-half of one degreeof latitude and of longitude. It is located atabout the center of the eastern shore of Mich-igan, at the head of that great arm of Lake Huron, Saginaw Bay,where the Thumb of the Michigan mitten joins the hand. We see that the county is irregular in shape on account of thepolitical boundaries made in carving Bay County from Saginaw Countyand later in forming Arenac from what for over twenty-five years wasthe northern part of Bay County. Its position on the bay shore also. PHYSICALFEATURES. 3 adds to the irregular shape. A glance at the map will show that thebounding counties, with the exception of Arenac, are larger and muchmore regular than ours. Bay City, like the county, is long, rather narrow, and irregular,being built up along both banks of the Saginaw River. It extendsfrom within one and one-half miles of Saginaw Bay at its nearestpoint in Banks, to about seven and one-half miles from the bay at itssouthern boundary. No point in the city is two miles away from somepart of the river, while its greatest width from east to west is butlittle more than three miles. Both city and county are divided by the river into natural divi-sions—the east and west sides. For purposes of government the cityis divided into nine wards (1), and the county is divided for the samereason into one city and fourteen townships. The usual township issix miles square, but in Bay County we see that there is great irreg-ularity in both the size a
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