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Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan...
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by Walter Romig
Sales Rank: 6415733
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$75.00
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on 5-31-2008.
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 673 pages
Published by: Wayne State University Press; Great Lakes books ed edition January 1986
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0814318371
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0814318379
Book Description
Uncovers the origins of more than 5000 of the state's geographical names.
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Publisher Description
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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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Michigan Place Names (Great Lakes Books) (Paperback)
__________________ Based on the old Michigan "postmaster history", this book is very handy for trivia buffs as well. The index is very reliable, I've only noticed a few minor omissions. I give this five stars because it's a nice and nicely sized reference work. It's about the size of one of those car sized phone books that TDI et al make for the cellular phone user and easy to handle. Fascinating and detailed, it is indispensible in its niche. A good companion would be one of the county by county state atlases which shows the locations of the vanished towns, although some of these are so vanished they won't appear on the map.
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