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Big Bay is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Powell Township, Marquette County, on the shore of Big Bay, an inlet of Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Big Bay was established in 1875 by people involved in the lumber industry, growing into a company sawmill town tucked between the Huron Mountains and Lake Superior.

The Big Bay Lumber Company built a sawmill near Lake Independence in 1901, powering the town's growth in the early 1900s.

Henry Ford bought Big Bay's mill in 1943 — along with nearly every other building in town — remodeled it, and added a new engine room, boiler room, and 190-foot smokestack; the mill produced wooden panels for Ford's famous "woody" station wagons.

Ford Motor Company closed the Big Bay mill in 1949, two years after Henry Ford's death, ending the town's lumber mill era.

Big Bay is famous as the setting of Robert Traver's novel Anatomy of a Murder and its 1959 film version directed by Otto Preminger and starring James Stewart; scenes were shot at the Thunder Bay Inn and the Lumberjack Tavern, the site of the real 1952 crime that inspired the story.

In 1934 Dr. Goldie Corneliuson and Elba Morse converted a former residence in Big Bay into Bay Cliff Health Camp, a year-round nonprofit camp serving children and adults with physical disabilities.

Burn's Landing, built in 1860 on the Lake Superior shore, is Big Bay's oldest surviving cabin.

The exclusive Huron Mountain Club, organized in 1889, had come to own or control about 12,000 acres of wilderness near Big Bay by 1927, with dozens of private cabins on its grounds.

The 2020 census counted 257 people in the Big Bay CDP, down from 319 in 2010; back in 2000 its 265 residents lived in 129 households, reflecting the community's many seasonal homes.