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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMOO_center-avenue_Bay-City-MI.html
Center Avenue presents one of the most spectacular displays of late nineteenth and early twentieth century residential architecture in Michigan. Between 1870 and 1940 Bay City's prominent citizens favored Center Avenue as "the" place to live. Earl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMND_trinity-church-trinity-episcopal-church_Bay-City-MI.html
(front side):Trinity ChurchTrinity Church grew from a small group of settlers served by Episcopal missionaries beginning around 1842. Church records credit William and Ann Fitzhugh with founding the church. On March 4, 1854, fourteen people, led b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNA_charles-b-geogiana-mcgraw-curtiss-house_Bay-City-MI.html
Charles came to Bay City in 1864 from Ithaca, NY, to work for sawmill owners Henry Sage and John McGraw, eventually buying the Bay City Dredging Co. His home's architecture is Shavian Manorial, a Queen Anne/Tudor Revival style named after the 1860…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMHZ_first-presbyterian-church_Bay-City-MI.html
Side 1In 1848, James G. Birney and his wife led Bay City's earliest Presbyterian services in a schoolhouse. Birney, an elder in the church, twice ran unsuccessfully for president on the antislavery ticket. The Reverend Lucius Root organized the Fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMHW_ten-hours-or-no-sawdust_Bay-City-MI.html
Side 1When Bay City's sawmills opened in 1885, mill owners notified workers that wages would be 12 to 25 percent lower than in 1884. On July 6, 1885, Bay City millhands began to walk off the job. Their slogan, "Ten Hours or No Sawdust," represente…