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Escanaba

City and administrative headquarters of Delta County, northwest Michigan; population (2000) 13,100. It is situated on the Upper Peninsula, on Little Bay de Noc of Lake Michigan. A storage and distribution centre for coal and oil products and an important Great Lakes port, it ships coal, lumber, iron ore, and other freight. There are commercial fishing and timber-based industries. Escanaba also manufactures chemicals, furniture, paper, and concrete. It hosts the annual Upper Peninsula State Fair, is headquarters for Hiawatha National Forest, and is home to the Bay de Noc Community College (1962).

The site of ancient American Indian villages, it developed as a lumbering centre in the early 1800s and flourished when the first iron-ore dock was built by the Chicago and North Western Railway Company in 1863.



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