Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities

Romig, Walter

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ISBN 10: 081431838X ISBN 13: 9780814318386

Published by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1986

Language: English

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There are 5,000 of place names in Michigan described in this book, all with brief sketches. This book also contains contains a personal name index in the rear as well as a bibliography. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. There is a small crease to the bottom corner of the front cover and a few pages below it are slightly creased, else this is nice, useable copy that appears to have been seldom used. ; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 673 pages.

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Title: Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities
Publisher: Wayne State University Press, Detroit
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 081431838X
ISBN 13: 9780814318386
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good

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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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Larry B. Massie is an Allegan-based historian and book collector

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