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Green Bay

A city of eastern Wisconsin at the mouth of the Fox River on Green Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan. Founded as a trading post in 1634, the city grew in the mid-1800s as a port and industrial center.
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n.
1. an arm of Lake Michigan, in NE Wisconsin. 120 mi. (195 km) long.
2. a port in E Wisconsin at the S end of this bay. 102,076.
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Noun1.Green Bay - a city of eastern Wisconsin on an arm of Lake Michigan
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While the Northwesters continued to push their enterprises into the hyperborean regions from their stronghold at Fort William, and to hold almost sovereign sway over the tribes of the upper lakes and rivers, the Mackinaw Company sent forth their light perogues and barks, by Green Bay, Fox River, and the Wisconsin, to that areas artery of the West, the Mississippi; and down that stream to all its tributary rivers.
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