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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Antrim County, Michigan. Official Website The county was formed in 1840 as Meegisee County. Meegisee (meaning "eagle"), was the name of a Chippewa chief who signed the 1821 Treaty of Chicago and the 1826 Treaty of Mississinewas. It was renamed Antrim County in 1843, one of the Irish or Scots-Irish names given to five renamed Michig...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ottawa County, Michigan. Official Website The county was set off in 1831 and organized in 1837. It is named for The Ottawa Nation. Adjacent Counties Muskegon County Kent County Allegan County Racine County, Wisconsin Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Cities & Villages Coopersville Ferrysburg Grand Haven (County Seat...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Delta County, Michigan. Official Website The county was surveyed in 1843 and organized in 1861. Its name originates from the Greek letter "delta", which refers to the triangular shape of the original county which included segments of Menominee, Dickinson, Iron, and Marquette counties. Adjacent Counties Alger County Schoolcraft...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marquette County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county is named for Father Marquette, a Jesuit missionary. It was set off in 1843 and organized in 1851. Adjacent Counties * Alger County * Delta County * Menominee County * Dickinson County * Iron County * Houghton County * Baraga County
Goal and Scope of this Project=This project is a description of the city of Detroit, its history and people that made it famous.The story of Detroit--and this project--starts from the first recorded mention of the site in 1670, when French missionaries found a stone idol venerated by the Indians there and destroyed it with an axe. Detroit on the map today.=Toponymy===How to Input Locations in G...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =The Great Lake State, The Wolverine State, The Mitten State, Water, Winter Wonderland are a few nicknames for the State of Michigan . State Motto: If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you .* State Rock: Petoskey* State Bird: Robin* State Mammals: Wolverine and the Whitetail Deer* State Tree: Eastern White PineWhen you ask a Lower Peninsula "Mi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The county was set off in 1843, and organized in 1848. The county is named after the Ontonagon River. The name is said to be loosely derived from an Ojibwe language word noojitoon ziibi, meaning "hunting river." A French transliteration, Nantounagon, identified the river on a 1670 French map. Alternatively,...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Official Website The county was authorized by legislation in 1822 and was organized as a county in 1826. The word Washtenaw is a variant of the Ojibwe word: "Wash-ten-ong," the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) name for the Grand River in Michigan. Adjacent Counties Livingston County Oakland County Wa...
The Quincy Mine was founded in 1846 by the merger of the Northwest Mining Company and the Portage Mining Company. Due to poor communication between government offices, these two speculative mining companies had purchased the same tracts of land during the mining rush of the early 1840's. The directors met and decided to merge, with significant investment coming from Massachusetts (the town of Q...
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL), and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team formally joined the NFL on July 12, 1930 and be...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Genesee County, Michigan. Official Website Genesee County was created on March 28, 1835 and was named after Genesee County, New York. Adjacent Counties Lapeer County Livingston County Oakland County Saginaw County Shiawassee County Tuscola County Cities & Villages Burton Clio Davison
The Tamarack, Osceola, Tamarack Junior & Kearsarge mines- The Tamarack Mining Company was incorporated in 1882 and is opened on the underlay of the Calumet conglomerate reef, (on a tract west of land held by Calumet and Hecla) and to some extent upon the Osceola amygdaloid as well, the latter being opened by means of crosscuts run east from the openings on the conglomerate. 5 shafts were sunk...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alger County, Michigan. Alger County was organized in 1885. The county was named for lumber baron Russell Alexander Alger , who was elected as a Michigan Governor, and US Senator, and appointed as US Secretary of War during the William McKinley Presidential administration. There are six lighthouses in the county: Grand Island Ea...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Menominee County, Michigan.The county was created in 1861 under the name of Bleeker. When county government was organized in 1863, the name was changed to Menominee - an American Indian word meaning "wild rice eater" Adjacent Counties * Marquette County * Delta County * Door County, Wisc. * Dickinson County * Marinette County, Wisc. C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dickinson County, Michigan. Official Website Dickinson is Michigan's newest county, formed in 1891 from parts of Marquette, Menominee, and Iron counties. It was named for Donald M. Dickinson, who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Grover Cleveland. Adjacent Counties Marquette County Menominee County Marinet...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Calhoun County, Michigan. Official Website The county was established on October 19, 1829 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under Andrew Jackson, making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties. County government was first organized on March 6, 1833. Adjacent Counties Eaton County Barry Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Michigan. Official Website Before the county's formation, the primary settlement was Frenchtown, which was settled in as early as 1784 along the banks of the River Raisin. The small plot of land was given to the early French settlers by the Potawatomi Native Americans, and the area was claimed for New France. The sett...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hillsdale County, Michigan. Official Website The county is named for its rolling terrain. It was described by action of the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1829, and was organized six years later. Adjacent Counties Calhoun County Jackson County Branch County Steuben County, Indiana Fulton County, Ohio Lenawee County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lenawee County, Michigan. Official Website The county organization was created in 1826. The county's name is a Henry Schoolcraft neologism, thought to be derived from a Native American word meaning "male"—from the Delaware "leno or lenno" or the Shawnee "lenawai." Adjacent Counties Jackson County Hillsdale County Fulton Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Schoolcraft County, Michigan. The county was founded in 1843 and organized in 1876. It is named in honor of Henry Schoolcraft, who explored the area with the expedition of Lewis Cass. Adjacent Counties Luce County Mackinac County Alger County Delta County Leelanau County Cities. Townships, Communities & Reservation...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kent County, Michigan. Official Website The county was set off in 1831, and organized in 1836. It was named for New York jurist and legal scholar James Kent, who represented the Michigan Territory in its dispute with Ohio over the Toledo Strip. Adjacent Counties Ionia County Montcalm County Allegan County Ottawa County B...
Roselawn Memorial Park, was established in 1928 on the 54 acre Betz farm. In 1958 Roselawn was turned into a non-profit cemetery and is currently governed by a Board of Directors. Planned and operated as a community oriented cemetery, Roselawn is recognized as Monroe County’s finest memorial park. An additional 26.5 acres has been added for future development. Roselawn Website This cemeter...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Macomb County, Michigan.= Official Website =The Ojibwe lived in the area for centuries before European contact, and were preceded by other cultures of ancient indigenous peoples.The first European explorers were French, and they arrived in the area during the 17th century. Other early settlers were French fur trappers, who sometimes m...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ionia County, Michigan. Official Website The county is named for Ionia, a historic area of Greece. It was defined by act of the Territorial Legislature in 1831, and was organized in 1837. Adjacent Counties Gratiot County Clinton County Montcalm County Eaton County Barry County Kent County Cities, Villages & Tow...