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Topics: If you are visiting or want to know more aspects of the county these links may be helpful. Menominee County Interactive - map Coming soon: History Queries Visit the ALHN
The Michigan ALHN is providing these links to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement of the site by the Michigan ALHN. You are the 3973rd visitor to this page. ©Copyright 2000 By Lesley Moss This page was updated Sunday, July 23, 2000 |
The Michigan American Local History Network is a central web page from which independent web sites containing historical or genealogical content about Michigan or it's counties, are linked.
If you are interested in hosting a Michigan county, please contact Bonnie McVicar-Briggs, Lesley Moss or Sondra Higbee, the State Coordinators for Michigan. We will be happy to help you. We would be happy to have volunteers who prefer to host a township, city or cover a topic in a township too, such as religion, history, cemeteries, occupations, etc. We can easily link your page to the County it falls under.If you want to contribute, please check out the Volunteer FAQ Page. The county was named for the Menominee tribe who lived in the vicinity. The
word means "rice men" or "rice gatherers." By 1790 a French Canadian
named Louis Chappieau opened a thriving fur trading operation. The Menominee river flowed
through vast pine forests and the first sawmill was opened in 1832. By 1890 the area
ranked second in the nation as a principal lumbering region. Agriculture began to replace
lumbering by 1917.
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