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Escanaba
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Escanaba (ĕskənä`bə), city (1990 pop. 13,659), seat of Delta co., W Upper Peninsula, N Mich., on Little Bay de Noc; settled 1852, inc. 1883. It is a railroad and manufacturing center that stores and ships coal and petrochemicals from its harbor. Lumber and its byproducts, however, are the chief economic mainstay. The Upper Peninsula State Fair is held annually in Escanaba.


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By September 1871, the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad was piercing the woods north of Green Bay striving to reach Escanaba, Michigan, with the promise of economic growth and progress for the region's inhabitants.
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