East Saginaw Courier (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??
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358 issues from 1859 to 1866, published in Saginaw, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
The East Saginaw Courier was established in June 1859 at East Saginaw, Michigan, a now defunct city on the east bank of the Saginaw River. East Saginaw was founded by local businessman Jesse Hoyt in 1850, some three decades after the establishment of the military and trading post of Saginaw, which followed the signing of a treaty with the local Chippewa. East Saginaw was incorporated as a village in 1855 and as a city in 1857. Lying between Mid-Michigan and the part of the state known as the “Thumb,” the Saginaw Valley was the heart of a region containing among “the most extensive as well as the most valuable tracts [of timber] in the world.”
The arrival of the Flint and Pere Marquette railway contributed greatly to the growth of East Saginaw. While a railroad company was established in 1857 to construct a line to Pere Marquette (later renamed Ludington) on Lake Michigan, it was not until 1862 that the first section running from East Saginaw to Mount Morris, in Genessee County, was complete. In December of 1864, the city gained railroad access to the Detroit market. By 1874, the railroad to Ludington was completed making East Saginaw a transport hub for the Lower Peninsula. Contributing further to this growth were river and lake routes such as the East Saginaw and Bay County Line linking the new rail hub to passenger and freight trade on Lake Huron.
George F. Lewis served as first editor and proprietor of the East Saginaw Courier. He also ran a stationary and book store…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Saginaw, Michigan, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress