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Green Bay

a city and county-seat of Brown co., Wis.; on Green bay, the Fox river, and the Chicago and Northand the 'Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Green Bay and Western, and the Kewaunee, Green Bay and West- , Green Bay and West ern railroads; 65 miles N. N. E. of Fond du Lac. It is at the head of lake and the foot of river navigation; has an ample harbor, and carries on a large trade in lumber, coal, grain, flour, cheese, etc.

It has waterworks, electric lights and street railroads. National banks, public library, high school, several Roman Catholic and Lutheran parochial schools. The United States Government constructed a ship canal to connect the Mississippi river with Lake Michigan, using the Wisconsin and Fox rivers, the cost of which was over $10,000,000. Pop. (1910) 25,236; (1920) 31,017. was over

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