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Michigan
Place Names
The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than
Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities
Walter Romig
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From
Aabec in Antrim County to Zutphen in Ottawa County, from Hell to Hooker,
Michigan Place Names
is a compendium of information on the origins of the state's geographical
names. With alphabetically arranged thumb-nail sketches, Walter Romig
introduces
readers to a host of colorful personalities and episodes which have achieved
notoriety, though sometimes shortlived, by devising or lending their names
to the state's settlements.
Romig spent more than ten years researching and documenting
the entries to which he added an extensive bibliography of sources and an
index of the personal names used in the text. For the curious, the librarian,
the genealogist, or the historian, his book is an indispensable resource.
Michigan Place Names is
another "Michigan classic" reissued as a Great Lakes Book. |
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WAUKAZOOVILLE,
Leelanau County: it was founded by Rev. George N. Smith in 1849; James McLaughlin
and his son-in-law, William H. Case, built the first house in 1849; they
had been sent here as missionaries by the Waukazoo band of Ottawas at Old
Wing; the settlement was annexed by Northport in 1852. |
