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The Bay City Fireworks Festival is an American Independence Day festival held each year around the 4th of July [1] on the Saginaw River near Veterans Memorial Bridge in Bay City, Michigan. In addition to the fireworks display, the festival also features several days of live concerts , a carnival , boat tours and more.
Music buffs attend a performance as part of last year's Concerts in the Tent series at Alpine Resort in Egg Harbor. The series returns for 2024 with 18 concerts between June 19 and Sept. 25.
The festival is named after a stretch of downtown Bay City's riverfront known as Hell's Half Mile in the mid-to-late 1800s, when it was lined with saloons and brothels. At the time, Bay City was a big logging community. Loggers and shipmen would come into Bay City to spend their paychecks, gamble and get into fights on the Hell's Half Mile strip.
1301 Leng St, Bay City, MI 48706 Bay City: April 28, 1987: Trinity Episcopal Church and Eddy-Shearer Residence: 911 Center Avenue Bay City: January 8, 1981: Tromble House† Veterans Memorial Park (114, 116, and 118 Webster Street) Bay City: August 13, 1971
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Bay City State Park (previously Bay City State Recreation Area) is a 2,389-acre (967 ha) state park located on the shore of Saginaw Bay near Bay City in Bay County, Michigan, United States. The Tobico Marsh , one of the largest remaining freshwater, coastal wetlands on the Great Lakes is located in the park.
Bay City was founded in the mid-1840s, and the first commercial establishment began admitting customers in 1850-51. The initial commercial development in Bay City, in the 1850s and 1860s, occurred along North Water Street, adjacent to the lumbering businesses along the river.
Veterans Memorial Park is the central park of Bay County, Michigan. The park, approximately 97 acres (39 ha), is located along the west bank of the Saginaw River in Bay City, Michigan, United States. [1] [2] Across the river is another city park, Wenonah Park.