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He was a teenager from a distinguished American family and when the Civil War erupted 150 years ago this week, he wanted to join up to defend the Union.
Courtesy Gen. Benjamin Franklin Partridge. His image has gone from obscurity to hero to something in between, but the fact remains, Bay City’s Gen. Benjamin Franklin Partridge answered the...
The structures in the district date from the Civil War through the early 1930s, and include a variety of styles, from Italianate Commercial Palaces to Romanesque commercial blocks, early 1900s Colonial Revival buildings and Modern designs.
Jun 1, 2015 · Time periods expressed for 20,000-plus spectators of all ages convey pre-contact Native Americans, Voyageurs, the Revolutionary War, Westward Expansion, French and Indian War, Civil War, two World Wars and Vietnam, complete with mandolins, river battles and Little John’s Root Beer (riveroftime.org).
- Lisa M. Jensen
At the outbreak of the First World War, Bay City contained a largely German neighborhood called Salzburg. The German-descended minority became the focus of extreme nativism and xenophobia. Pastors introduced English-language sermons for the first time in Salzburg but it did not catch on and sermons in Salzburg remained mostly German.
Bay City celebrates River of Time, a living history event that attracts more than 50,000 visitors each year. The park is turned into a pioneer village and hundreds of re-enactors perform in several period encampment sites, depicting the Colonial period, the French and Indian War, and the Civil War.
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Leon Trombley is regarded as the first settler within the limits of Bay County, in an area which would become Bay City. In 1831, he built a log cabin on the east bank of the Saginaw river. Bay City was first established in 1837, and was incorporated as a city in 1865.
