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Great Lakes Tour Showcases Nation's Trade Power
National Geographic Society presents a survey of the Great Lakes linking commerce and industry. Buffalo and Cleveland hubs, canals, and locks enable vast ore, coal, and grain transfers. Detroit auto output centers. Duluth-Superior harbor rivals New York in tonnage. cherry belts and climate shaped by Lake Michigan.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
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Great Lakes
America
St. Lawrence
Midwest
Nicolet
Joliet
Marquette
la Salle
Mississippi Basin
Hiawatha
Paul Bunyan
Cal
Lake Erie
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Upper Lakes
Beaver
Erie Canal
Chicago
Gulf of Mexico
Lake Michigan
Gulf
Tidewater
Ilinois Waterway
New York State Barge Canal
Oswego
St. Lawrence Canals
New
Welland Canal
Osceola
The
Superior
Detroit
King
Olds
Leland
Ford
New York
Port Huron
Bay City
Alpena
Calcite
Muskegon
Gary
Lake Shore
Upper Michigan
Menominee
Escanaba
Manistique
Ontonagon
Woods
Irons
Tronwood
Iron River
Crystal Falls
Iron Mountain
Traverse City
Peace
South Haven
Michigan
Green Bay
Mississippi
Door County
Wisconsin
Sturgeon Bay
Peninsula
Potowatomi
Cherryland
Duluth-Superior
Fort William
Port Arthur
Great Northwest
Duluth- Superior