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TRAVERSE CITY

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CITY  , the
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county-seat of
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Grand
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Traverse county,
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Michigan, U.S.A., on the
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Boardman
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river, between Boardman
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Lake and the
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west
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arm of Grand Traverse
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Bay, in the N.W.
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part of the
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lower
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peninsula . Pop . (190o), 9407, of whom 2068 were
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foreign-
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born; (1910,
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census), 12,115 . It is served by the Pere
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Marquette, the Grand Rapids &
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Indiana and the
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Manistee &
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North-Eastern
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railways, and by steamboat
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line to
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Chicago and other lake ports . The
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climate, scenery and
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good fishing attract summer visitors . The
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city has a public library and a library owned by the Ladies' Library Association, and is the seat of the
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Northern Michigan
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Asylum for the Insane (opened 1885) . There are various manufactures, and in 1904 the
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total value of the factory product was $2,176,903 . Traverse City was settled in 1847, incorporated as a
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village in 1881 and chartered as a city in 1895 .

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