Saginaw
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- Names
Saginaw
East Saginaw
Fort Saginaw
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Saginaw river, off Lake Huron; site was laced with Amerindian trails & villages were nearby; European-American settlement grew around trading post founded in 1816; grew as fur-trading & pine-lumbering center in 19th cen.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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