Article: Ghosts, legends and other Bay City lore.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Bay City is an old place, so it has stories. Lots of stories.

Stories of Hell's Half Mile, Paul Bunyan, murder most foul and the first woman over Niagara Falls.

Stories about ghosts in the Old City Hall restaurant who leave lumps of coal on table No. 14 and open locked doors, and about unseen things that go flush in the morning.

And stories, true ones, of America's foremost abolitionist in the early 1800s, James G. Birney.

A Bay City man, Birney ran for president twice on a platform with one plank _ free the slaves. His votes only numbered a few thousand, but his antislavery party grew and grew, eventually renaming itself twice. And ...

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