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The Byron was a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Oostburg, Wisconsin, United States. In 2009 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places . [ 2 ]
Byron (BY-rən) is a village in Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 581 at the 2010 census . The village is located within Burns Township .
Buck Creek is a 20.3-mile-long (32.7 km) [2] tributary of the Grand River in Kent and Allegan counties in the U.S. state of MichiganIt rises in northern Allegan County in Byron and Gaines townships, and flows through the cities of Kentwood and Wyoming as an urban stream to enter the Grand River in Grandville.
The name of the peninsula and the county comes from the name of a route between Green Bay and Lake Michigan. Humans, whether Native Americans, early explorers, or American ship captains, have been well aware of the dangerous water passage that lies between the Door Peninsula and Washington Island, connecting the bay to the rest of Lake Michigan.
Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.. The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is relatively mountainous in the west. The Porcupine Mountains, which are part of one of the oldest mountain chains in the world, [3] rise to an altitude of almost 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level and form the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.
The company was hoping to establish Green Bay as a port city to rival Chicago by making the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway into the principal shipping route between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River. This goal was never achieved, as the Upper Fox remained too shallow for significant shipping even after damming and dredging.
It is located 772 kilometres (480 mi) ... Festivals held in or near Byron Bay include the Byron Bay Bluesfest at Tyagarah at Easter, ... River-FM 92.9 FM ...
The Montreal River is a river flowing to Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It is 47.8 miles (76.9 km) long [3] and drains approximately 270 square miles (700 km 2) in a forested region. For most of its length, the river's course defines a portion of the Wisconsin–Michigan border.