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• (Marine City) - It was not until after the American Revolution that European-American settlers arrived in any number. In the 1780s they obtained a deed for land from the Chippewa Indians.
  The Americans called the community "Yankee Point", because so many settlers came from the Northern Tier of states, with late 18th and 19th century migration originating from New England. They also called the settlement "Belle River", later the name of a neighborhood.
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• (Marine City) - The village was platted as Newport in 1835-37. Although never incorporated by that name, it was known as "Newport" for 31 years.
  
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• In 1865, the Village of Marine City was incorporated.
  
  
•   1870 - A new barge, called the C. G. King, was to be launched at South Saginaw last week.
  Her carrying capacity is 500,000 feet of lumber, and she is built by Thomas Arnold, of Marine City.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  July 23, 1870
  
• Thriving on lumber and other commodity trade, the village of Marine City re-incorporated as a city in June 1887
  
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• 1895 - Marine City
  Marine City, a post-village in Cottrellville township, St. Clair co, Mich., on the St. Clair River, at the mouth of the Belle River, about 20 miles S. of Port Huron, and 42 miles by water N.E. of Detroit. It has a money-order post-office, a bank, a graded school, a newspaper office, 4 churches, a brewery, and a tannery. Steamboats are built here. Pop. in 1890, 3268.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
• 1906
  Marine City, a banking city of St. Clair co., Mich., on the St. Clair River, at the mouth of the Belle River, and on the Detroit and River St. Clair R., 50 miles NE. of Detroit. It has large salt-works and ship-yards. Pop. in 1900, 3829.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
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