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Local History

Its site lays in the claim pre-empted by prospector James Kirk Paul in 1843.  He built his log cabin here and began to plat the town, recording his plant in 1854.  Incorporated as a village in 1885.  It was in Houghton County until Ontonagon was organized in 1853.  

The name Ontonagon was first found on a Jesuit map of 1672, identifying the river which flows through the area and taken from the Chippewa word Nan-ton-a-gon, meaning bowl, from the shape of the river's mouth. 

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

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