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County Saginaw Saginaw Website City of Saginaw .n / is a town/city in the State of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The town/city of Saginaw and Saginaw County are both positioned in the region known as Mid-Michigan or Central Michigan.
The town/city of Saginaw is positioned adjoining to Saginaw Charter Township and is considered part of the Tri-City area, along with neighboring Bay City and Midland.
The Saginaw County MSA had a populace of 196,542 in 2013. The town/city is also the biggest municipality inside the Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City Metropolitan Area.
The town/city of Saginaw was a grow lumber town in the 19th century and an meaningful industrial town/city and manufacturing center throughout much of the 20th century.
However, by the late 20th century, Saginaw's trade and its once-strong manufacturing existence declined, dominant to increasing unemployment, crime, and a decline in population. Neighboring communities, such as Saginaw Charter Township, saw subsequent populace increases while the town/city itself is projected to return to normal populace growth after the decades-long structural shifts to the economy. Main article: History of Saginaw, Michigan The site of what later became the town/city of Saginaw was originally inhabited by the Sauk citizens , who lived in the region and were driven out by the Ojibwe (Chippewa).
The first permanent settlement by those other than Native Americans was in 1816 when Louis Campau established a trading post on the west bank of the Saginaw River. Shortly after that the United States established Fort Saginaw.
During Michigan's territorial period, a county and township government were organized at Saginaw.
What is now the town/city of Saginaw resulted from the consolidation of the metros/cities of East Saginaw and Saginaw City (West Side) in 1889.
In 1819, Lewis Cass, in the Treaty of Saginaw, negotiated the prerogative for the United States to own and settle the region with the leaders of the Ojibwe.
In 1822, the United States Army established a fort on the west bank of the Saginaw River and titled it Fort Saginaw.
Saginaw was the locale of the annual government payment to the Ojibwe and Ottawa of the area, starting in the 1830s.
The chief cause for the beginning and subsequent evolution of Saginaw was the large demand for lumber as the United States period westward.
The convenient access to transit provided by the Saginaw River and its various tributaries fueled a massive expansion in populace and economic activity.
As the trees were being cut down in the region, logs were floated down the rivers to sawmills positioned in Saginaw, destined to be loaded onto ships and later barns cars.
On the west side of the river the first settlement around what had been Fort Saginaw advanced into Saginaw, which was incorporated as a town/city in 1857, including the seat of the Saginaw County government.
On the east side of the river a alongside settlement, East Saginaw, advanced which was incorporated first as a village in 1855, and then as a town/city in 1859.
Also south of East Saginaw, on the east bank of the river, the village of Salina formed.
Both Saginaw and East Saginaw quickly became a core for barns transit in addition to ships making their way on the Saginaw River.
On June 28, 1889, the Michigan state council passed Act 455 to consolidate the metros/cities of Saginaw and East Saginaw into a single city. Prior to this consolidation, the close-by village of Salina had already turn into part of East Saginaw.
Saginaw was to be governed by a town/city council consisting of two aldermen propel from 21 wards and a mainly ceremonial executive mayor who was to have fairly weak powers.
The efficient and cohesive functioning of the Saginaw town/city government also was constrained by remaining rivalries between residents, company owners, and politicians from the former two cities.
The distinct ions and rivalries between Saginaw's east side and west side persisted into the 20th century in various forms, and continues to influence Saginaw's social, political, economic landscape, even into the 2010s. Jackson-Church-Wilcox was acquired by Buick in 1909, and as part of General Motors would turn into the Jackson, Church and Wilcox Division, the first GM division specifically devoted to parts production; In 1919 the Jacox division would be organized with Saginaw Malleable Iron and Central Foundry into GM's Saginaw Products Company, and would form the basis for the Saginaw Steering Gear Division, created in 1928.
The new Michigan state constitution mandated increased home rule powers for small-town units of government, and the Michigan state council enacted the Home Rule Cities Act in 1909.
Under this statute, metros/cities were permitted to frame and adopt their own town/city charters and were given great flexibility in structuring their small-town governments.
In 1913, a new town/city charter was adopted with voter approval and which followed a commission form of town/city government that had attained in prominent interest among various metros/cities athwart the United States in the early 20th century.
The new government consisted of five commissioners, each propel separately at-large, who served both as the town/city council and as the executive heads of various town/city government departments.
The 1913 town/city charter was followed for little more than two decades when the voters of the town/city again adopted another new town/city charter in 1935 following the council-manager form of government.
The government under the 1913 town/city charter retained some of the autonomous boards that were given authority autonomous of the propel town/city commissioners.
In contrast to the previous government structures, the 1935 charter, having taken effect in 1936, provided for all administration of town/city government to be headed directly by a single officer, the town/city manager, who was appointed by, and accountable to a town/city council of nine members propel as a group by the entire town/city at-large.
The fitness was designed to address two principal issues with Saginaw's history of municipal government, the inefficiency and politics associated with having executive and administrative authority spread among many different officers and boards, and political rivalries and friction between various geographic areas of the city, mainly the east side and the west side.
The former East Saginaw Post Office, pictured here in June 2006, is now the site of the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1906), later Saginaw Steering Gear Plant 1, closed 1984, sold by GM in 1987 to Thomson Industries, still operating as of 2009. Chevrolet Saginaw Parts at Sixth and Washington on Saginaw's East Side, assembled in 1906 as the assembly plant of the Rainier Motor Car Company, acquired by GM in 1907; closed 1983 and completed 1984. Saginaw Malleable Iron on the Southwest Side (1917); contracted to build gear housings for GM's Jacox division (the former Jackson Wilcox company, later Saginaw Steering Gear), sold to GM in 1919, later part of Saginaw Products Division, reorganized into a new Central Foundry Division in 1946. Closed May 2007, razed in 2010 and for sale as of May 2013 by the RACER Trust, charged with disposing of abandoned GM properties.
Chevrolet Grey Iron, on the North Side of Saginaw, opened as Central Foundry in 1918, directed by Chevrolet Division 1927 1983, after that by GM Powertrain Division; still operating today as Saginaw Metal Casting Operations, the only GM manufacturing division still operating in Saginaw County.
Chevrolet Saginaw Transmission on East Genesee in Saginaw, assembled 1919 20 for the Michigan Crankshaft Company, acquired by GM in 1921 and placed under Saginaw Products; transferred to Chevrolet upon the dissolution of the Crankshaft Division (ca.
Home of the Saginaw 3-speed and 4-speed manual transmissions; transferred to the Delco Moraine Division in 1984, which became Delphi Automotive in 1995; after 2007, leased and later purchased outright by TRW Automotive, operating as TRW Braking and Suspension until method in February 2014. Saginaw Steering Gear Plant 2, the "Gun Plant" (see below) adjoining to Malleable Iron; opened March 1941, closed July 2001, razed 2002. For sale by RACER Trust as of May 2013.
The 400-acre Saginaw Steering Gear complex in Buena Vista Township; Plant 3 opened 1953 next to the then-new US-23 bypass, adding Plants 4, 5 and 6 by 1966 and a seventh shortly after that.
Even before the United States entered World War II on the side of the Allies, Saginaw's industrialized complex became directed towards military production.
Perhaps most famously, Saginaw was home to a manufacturing facility that produced .30 caliber machine guns far more quickly and for far less than the Army thought possible, armor-piercing shells for anti-tank use, and over half a million M1 Carbine rifles for the U.S.
Military amid World War II, the "Gun Plant" that later became Steering Gear Plant 2. Saginaw Steering Gear's Plant 1 also began state of war manufacturing in 1941, concentrating on ball screws that would eventually be used in the wing flaps of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Malleable Iron converted its manufacturing of Armasteel from engine components to gun parts and tank treads, while Grey Iron specialized in the manufacturing of magnesium for use in Pratt and Whitney aeroplane engines. Migration from athwart the country, especially from the Southern United States, drastically increased Saginaw's populace during the war years and through the 1950s.
This populace growth encompassed the period existence of African Americans and Latinos in Saginaw.
Even before the end of the war, the needs of Saginaw's expansion became clear, and were met by momentous investment in the city's infrastructure.
In 1947, Saginaw and the close-by city of Midland constructed a 65-mile long waterworks pipeline drawing water from Whitestone Point in Lake Huron to meet the anticipated needs of the communities.
In addition, the metros/cities of Midland and Bay City joined with Saginaw to precarious and operate an airport on the site of a former POW camp in close-by Tittabawassee Township, which eventually became MBS International Airport.
Townships, which had historically served an agrarian, lesser population than that of the larger cities, were given the ability to furnish nearly all of the same services that an incorporated town/city could.
The unintended consequence of this choice was that the town/city of Saginaw stopped burgeoning in population, new housing evolution focused on the suburban townships, and eventually, businesses would follow.
The manufacturing existence in Saginaw declined in the latter half of the 20th century, dominant to high unemployment throughout the city.
As a result, the city's populace diminished; from 2000 to 2010, the populace of Saginaw proper decreased by nearly ten thousand citizens , and Michigan's state populace during that time reconstructiondecreased by 0.6% percent, the only U.S.
In recent years, Saginaw's crime rate has been a primary area of concern for the improve as well. The economic conditions of Saginaw, compounded by the 2007 2012 global financial crisis, make up another momentous area of concern for the city's residents.
Efforts to reduce blight in Saginaw increased greatly in 2013, with the United States Department of the Treasury approving a federally funded grant aimed at demolishing vacant and abandoned properties via the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.
The Saginaw town/city government can only legally tear down blighted properties that are publicly owned, a number that stands above 400.
After the grant's approval, Saginaw town/city officials announced a program to purchase unwanted, abandoned structures from property owners, which would be then added to the list of homes to tear down.
CBS tv executive and Saginaw native David Strouse announced an investment plan in late 2013 that would save nearly an entire block of buildings slated for demolition at the intersection of Washington and Genesee, the core of downtown Saginaw.
The Saginaw River freezes in the cold Michigan winter of February 2008.
Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.10 square miles (46.88 km2), of which, 17.34 square miles (44.91 km2) is territory and 0.76 square miles (1.97 km2) is water. Saginaw lies on the Saginaw River, 15 miles (24 km) inland from the Saginaw Bay, an arm of Lake Huron.
Climate data for Saginaw, Michigan Saginaw is the biggest principal town/city of the Saginaw-Bay City-Saginaw Township North CSA, a Combined Travel Destination that includes the Saginaw-Saginaw Township North (Saginaw County) and Bay City (Bay County) urbane areas, which had a combined populace of 307,940 at the 2010 census.
Main article: Government of Saginaw, Michigan Saginaw is classified as a Home Rule City under the Michigan Home Rule Cities Act which permits metros/cities to exercise "Home Rule" powers, among which is the power to frame and adopt its own City Charter which serves as the fundamental law of the city, in a manner similar to a Constitution for a nationwide or state government.
Pursuant to the City Charter, Saginaw is governed by a nine member propel at-large Council.
Mary's treats trauma, heart disease and cancer among other ailments and opened its Ambulatory Care Center in Saginaw Township in 2000 featuring the county's first suburban emergency room.
Michigan Lutheran Seminary is the only private high school in Saginaw Saginaw is served by Delta College and Saginaw Valley State University, which are positioned in close-by University Center, Michigan and a ground of Davenport University, positioned in Kochville Township.
See also: List of schools in Saginaw, Michigan The town/city of Saginaw is served by the Saginaw Public School District, also known as SPSD.
The Saginaw Public School District operates twelve elementary schools, two combined elementary/middle schools, two middle schools, one combined middle/high school, and two high schools.
The current superintendent is Mr.Nathan Mcclain The three enhance high schools in Saginaw are Arthur Hill High School, Saginaw High School, and the Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy.
Charter schools in the town/city are Saginaw Learn to Earn Academy, North Saginaw Charter Academy, Francis Reh Academy, Saginaw Prep schools, and the International Academy of Saginaw.
The Fashion Square Mall in close-by Saginaw Township, Michigan, as it appeared in December 2010.
The Saginaw urbane area's chief shopping precinct is positioned in neighboring Saginaw Township along Bay Rd.
Primary areas inside the town/city of Saginaw for consumer shopping include Old Town and downtown.
The City of Saginaw gets its electricity and natural gas from Consumers Energy.
In 1929, the town/city opened its merged water works plant which replaced two separate plants that were on each side of the Saginaw river.
This plant treated water brought in from the Saginaw river and piped it out to the inhabitants as well as corner pumps for citizens that did not have direct connections to the system. Currently, the City of Saginaw jointly owns with the City of Midland the Saginaw-Midland Municipal Water Supply Corporation.
Incorporated in 1946, this water treatment fitness has supplied drinking and industrialized water to both metros/cities and many encircling areas inside the county. Due to brackish water in the aquifers below both cities, a 65-mile (105 km) long pipeline was constructed in 1948 to supply water from Lake Huron at White Stone Point, north of Au Gres to water treatment plants in Saginaw and Midland with a second pipe added by 1996.
The City of Saginaw, in order to obtain new sources of revenue, sold water to areas outside of the town/city (especially to the Saginaw Charter Township).
This caused various businesses inside the town/city to leave for the encircling areas and evolution in the town/city to stagnate. The City of Midland, however, adopted a policy of "No Annexation, No Water" which has led to the expansion of the town/city as well as the encircling areas. The City of Saginaw consists of many diverse neighborhoods, including: Saginaw is served primarily by two airports: MBS International Airport, positioned in close-by Freeland, and Bishop International Airport, positioned in Flint.
In addition to the airports, Interstate 75 (I-75) serves as the chief arterial route for the Saginaw region while I-675 provides direct access to the center of the town/city from I-75.
The Saginaw River runs through the middle of the town/city and provides access to Saginaw Bay and the rest of the Great Lakes via docks on the northern side of the city.
In the town/city and encircling areas, mass transit is provided by bus under the authority of the Saginaw Transit Authority Regional Services (STARS) system. The STARS fitness joins to Bay City's Bus fitness at Saginaw Valley State University.
I-675 provides a short freeway loop through downtown Saginaw and back to I-75 through Saginaw Charter Township.
M-13 runs from I-69 through downtown Saginaw and north to Standish.
M-46 is a cross-peninsular road, running athwart the mitten and the thumb from Port Sanilac on the Lake Huron shore, through Saginaw, and then on to Muskegon on the Lake Michigan shore. This east west surface route nearly bisects the Lower Peninsula of Michigan latitudinally.
M-84 runs from downtown Bay City to M-58 in Saginaw.
The site of a National Register of Historic Places-listed home at 1514 N Michigan, in Saginaw, as it appeared in July 2010.
Saginaw's entertainment core can be found in the downtown area, where venues such as The Dow Event Center and the restored Temple Theatre offer live entertainment.
The Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra and Saginaw Choral Society are homed in the Temple and each of these organizations perform full concert series annually at the Temple venue.
The Saginaw Historical Society is also positioned downtown in an elaborate castle.
Nearby, the Saginaw Art Museum boasts an impressive permanent compilation and recently underwent a massive renovation.
Numerous other arts and cultural organizations serve the improve including the Saginaw Arts & Enrichment Commission, Eddy Band, Holidays in the Heart of the City, River Junction Poets, Theodore Roethke House of Poetry, Riverside Film Festival, Lawn Chair Film Festival, Friday Night Live Concerts, River Junction Poets and Saginaw Area Watercolor Society.
The Dow Event Center is home to the city's junior ice hockey team, the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League as well as The Saginaw Sting, an indoor football team.
Downtown Saginaw has recently undergone a resurgence with the addition of the Bancroft Condominiums and Bancroft Martini Bar and Coffee House.
The downtown Saginaw region contains a number of office buildings from the late 19th century and early 20th century.
They are positioned near the Saginaw Club, a civil club established in 1889.
In December 2016 "The Gallery: Art For Saginaw" opened in the newly redeveloped downtown.
The Saginaw region is home to two experienced sports squads as well as one NCAA Division-II school that has various sports programs.
The Saginaw Spirit is an Ontario Hockey League team that became nationally known when tv personality Stephen Colbert promoted the team on his show, The Colbert Report. The Saginaw Sting was an indoor football team that formed in 2007 to play in Saginaw beginning in the 2008 season and is presently on hiatus. At the collegiate level, Saginaw Valley State University competes in various sports such as American Football, Basketball, and Volleyball. Saginaw Valley State University Various Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 1963 SVSU Campus The Castle Museum of Saginaw County History is an meaningful and prominent exhibition in downtown Saginaw.
With over 100,000 artifacts in their collection, the Historical Society of Saginaw County displays items from their compilation as well as that of traveling exhibits. The Saginaw Art Museum hosts temporary exhibitions and permanent collections.
Saginaw is home to a Japanese Cultural Center, Tea House and Garden, as a result of its 52-year Sister-City relationship with Tokushima, Japan.
The Tea House, known as Saginaw Awa An, instead of in 1986, is considered to be one of the ten most authentic Tea Houses outside the nation of Japan.
The exhibition honors one of America's greatest 20th Century poets, who was born and raised in Saginaw.
Saginaw is part of Nielsen's Flint-Saginaw-Bay City-Midland Designated Market Area which is the 66th biggest market in the United States for Television Viewers. Saginaw is the home of CBS partner WNEM which maintains its studios and bureaus inside the town/city though its license is for Bay City, MI. ABC partner WJRT maintains its offices and newsrooms in Saginaw while its studios are in its improve of license, Flint. Only NBC partner WEYI and Christian station WAQP have the City of Saginaw as their town/city of record but both maintain their facilities outside of the city. Charter Communications operates a cable tv network servicing the City of Saginaw under a charter agreement.
Television stations in the Saginaw, Michigan region (Ascending order) 5 WNEM-TV CBS partner Licensed to Bay City; studios in Saginaw Saginaw and Saginaw Township are home to the three primary airways broadcast clusters serving the Greater Tri Cities.
Radio stations licensed inside the immediate Saginaw region are listed.
Many locations in the City of Saginaw also receive stations from Bay City, Midland, Flint, and Lansing.
1400 AM WSAM The Bay 1400 AM and 104 - FM Adult Contemporary Mac - Donald Broadcasting Saginaw 93.3 FM WKQZ The Rock Station, Z93 Modern modern Cumulus Media Midland; studios in Saginaw 96.1 FM WHNN My 96.1 Adult Contemporary Cumulus Media Bay City; studios in Saginaw 102.5 FM WIOG The Hit Music Channel Contemporary hits Cumulus Media Bay City; studios in Saginaw 106.3 FM WGER The New Mix 106.3 Adult intact music Alpha Media Saginaw The Saginaw News Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday Saginaw is referred to in the Simon & Garfunkel song "America": "It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw, I've gone to look for America." Bill Anderson and Don Wayne wrote a song entitled "Saginaw, Michigan" that has been veiled by a dozen artists. Cowboy singer Lefty Frizzell was the first to perform it, with his version reaching number one on the nation charts. Also popularly, it was performed by George Jones.
The song mis-situates the town/city on Saginaw Bay, about 15 miles to the north.
Saginaw served as the destination point for the Seinfeld characters Kramer and Newman amid an episode where the pair hatched a scheme to transport bottles and cans via a United States Postal Service mail truck from New York to Michigan to earn 10 per recycled item, as opposed to New York's 5 .
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