Excerpt from Bay County Past and Present: Compiled by the Pupils and Teachers of the Sixth Grade Geography Classes, Bay City Public SchoolsThe interaction between man and his physical surroundings has taken place in many ways right here in Bay County. The forests fur nish the best example, for they attracted the people here, furnished them with their occupations, and in the meantime were cleared away by those people who established rich farms and built great factories in their places.Bay City furnishes a good example Of two types of cities, as it combines the elements both of the trading and distributing center and of the manufacturing center.Government has developed step by step from the very simple government of an unsettled region into the complex government of a densely populated county.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.