State Parks and Camping in Michigan

Lake Gogebic State Park

Local History

This village was in Ontonagon County when founded by Alfred L. Corry, of Milwaukee, in 1886.  It was platted by Edward H. Rummele, of Sheboygan, also from Wisconsin in 1886.

A station on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.  Robert Fair became its first postmaster on June 4, 1886.  Named for the wife of E. H. Scott, a timber producer, Mary Enid Scott, taking the first three letters of her name, Mar-eni-sco.

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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