A history of the northern peninsula of Michigan and its people;.

CHAPTER XIX
SCHOOLCRAFT AND IELTA COUNTIES
SCIIOOLCRAFT COUITNTY —MANISTIQUE AND.MONISTIQUE —INDIAN LAKE AND
KITCII-ITI-KI-PI-PRODUCTS OF TIE SOIL AND LIVE STOCK-INCREASE
OF POPUTLATION-DELTA COUNTY —FOUNDING OF ESCANABA-GREAT
ORE I)OCKS-GREAT ShORT LINE-POWER, LIGHT AND WATERSCI-OOLS AND CIIURCIIE-ESCANABA INDUSTRIES-GLADSTONE-WELLS
-OTHER TOWNS IN THE COUNTY-AGRICULTURE AND GOOD ROADSINCREASE IN POPULATION.
Sehoolcraft and Delta were two of the six counties into which the
Upper Peninsula was divided by the general legislative act of March
9, 1843, and more than forty years afterward Alger was cut off from
Schoolcraft county and Luce was erected from the territory of Chippewa county; by which all four attained their present area. They
now formn an important group of counties constituting the east-central
portion of the UJpI)er P'eninsula of Michigan.
SCIIOOLCRAFT COUNTY
As organized uin(de( the act of MIarch 9, 1843, Schoolcraft county had
the following boundaries: B1eginniing on Lake Superior north of line
between ranges 12 and 13 west; thence west along the margin of the
lake to the line l)ctw-en ranges 23 and 24 West, thence cast to the line
betw(eenr ranges 12 and 13 west, together with Grand Island in Lake
Superior. The county wias attached to Chippewa for judicial purposes
and so continled(l until atlout 1880, when it was attached to Marquette
county. Grand Island( township, as established by act of March 16,
1847. embraced all the territory previously organized as Sehooleraft
county. and the first town meeting was ordered to be held at the house
of John W. Williamils ill Jlune of that yea'r.
'I'lce seat olf jiuslice of the original Sehooleraft county was establislhed at ()nota, a village on (ranid Island, now included in Alger
county; tle p)resent lolllds of Sehool(raft were not attained until the
setting-off of thel latter froimi (1il)ppewa county, to which it had been
attached, in 18S5. Altlouglh Sclhoolcraft county was established in
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