The Port of Green Bay

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The Port of Green Bay
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GreenBay2
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The Beginning

• Jean Nicollet was a famous explorer
• Looking to claim land for France
• Traveled on Lake Michigan
• Landed in Green Bay in 1634

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nealogie/DocumentsNicoletLieux.html
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Fur Trade Develops

• 1630s furs were regularly leaving the area
• Most furs were supplied by Native American
  traders
• Ottawa -Sauk
• Ojibwe -Huron
• Potawatomi -Fox
• Fur traders were using the Fox River

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Marquette and Joliet

• 1673
• Marquette and Joliet used Fox and Wisconsin
  rivers to reach the Mississippi
• Fox and Wisconsin Rivers became major
  transportation routes
• Port of Green Bay starts to boom

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rivers.html
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What first came into the Port?

• 1806
• 1816
• 1835 1892
• Turn of the century even
• more begins to change

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• Products change
• Amount of materials increases
• Port becomes essential (very important)
• to Green Bay

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Why use ships and the Port?

• Better air quality
• Fewer emissions
• Fewer accidents and
• highway congestion
• Less fuel consumption

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Transportation Efficiency (Usefulness)Water vs.
Land

• 692 Large Semi trucks
• 18,000 tons
• 110,000 gallons of fuel
• 16 tons of emissions
• 180 Railway Cars
• 18,000 tons
• 11 tons emissions
• 36,360 gallons of fuel

• One Coal Vessel
• 18,000 tons material
• 7,116 gallons of fuel
• 1 ton of emissions particles put into the air
  by cars, smokestacks

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Some of the Companies Using the Port Today
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How does the port affect the economy?

• Family Wage Jobs 565 million
• Income from Jobs 21 million
• Value of cargo 315 million
• State/local taxes 4 million

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Look at the beauty of the Port today!