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Businesses
Manufacturing, Merchant, and other businesses.

The history of businesses are not public, easy to obtain, or extensively covered in history books. None the less, they represent an important part of our history because they provide the financial means necessary for communities to survive. We'd appreciate whatever assistance you can provide to help us capture the history of local businesses.

Journal of Businesses: Listing and brief history.

Names - (year established) Description.

Merchants | Industrial | Services

- Merchants -

Bay City:
{Arnolds' Bakery} - (1856) First bakery. Heritage/People section.

Merchants | Industrial | Services

- Industrial -

Bay City:
Davidson Shipbuilding Company - (1871) Founder, James Davison of Buffalo, NY
--- Vessels Built Database
Defoe Boat & Motor Works - (1905) History of Defoe Shipbuilding Co.
--- Vessels Built Database
Industrial Works (1873) Industrial locomotive cranes.
United Carbon Products (1946) High purity graphite products.
Sage & McGraw Sawmill - (1865) in Heritage/People section.

Merchants | Industrial | Services

- Services -

Bay City:
Moulthrop-Clift, Inc. - (1867) Centennial insurance business.

Bay County:
Bay City Times, The (1873-Present) Newspaper business.
Publishing Businesses - General newspaper history and data base of publishers.