Archaeological atlas of Michigan [by] Wilbert B. Hinsdale...

CHEBOYGAN-EMMET

CLINTON COUNTY
(Map 8)
That part of Clinton County through which flows the Maple
River and its tributary creeks contained a greater number of
mounds than any other equal area in the state, except Newaygo
County. In Essex Township, Sections 15 and 16, there was a
single group of forty. The total number for the township was
at least forty-five. The southern part of Du Plain and the northern part of Ovid townships, along the Maple, had five mound
clusters, but the numbers in some of them are not given in the
early records. Upon Section 11, Greenbush Township, stood another large group. Though it is impossible to make a full counting of all the mounds in the county, many of which were rich in
artifacts and skeletons, sixty are certain.
Villages were much more numerous than the map indicates. In that part of the county through which the Lookingglass and Grand rivers flow, no mounds have been positively
identified, but village sites connected with trails are numerous
along the banks. Some of these sites are extensive and are strewn
with firestones for many rods. No pottery fragments have been
reported from some of them, whereas upon others sherds could
have been gathered in quantities. See notes on Ottawa, Kent,
Ionia, and Newaygo counties.
SITES IDENTIFIED
Villages --------- 5
Mounds ---------60

A few village sites have been identified at various points along
the Big Bay, in Cornell Township, and upon Big Summer Island.
SITES IDENTIFIED
Villages --------- 4

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TOWNSHIPS
Maple Ridge 8.
Baldwin 9.
Masonville 10.
Nahma 11.
Garden 12.
Cornell 13.
Escanaba 14.

Brampton
Ensign
Wells
Bay de Noc
Bark River
Ford River
Fairbanks

DICKINSON COUNTY
(Map 18)
Like the other interior counties of the Upper Peninsula, Dickinson has very little of archaeological interest. It was good hunting, trapping, and fishing ground, but apparently there was not
much to stabilize a primitive population.
The few notes about Indian trails and paths made by the government surveyors in 1849 do not warrant charting them for very
long distances. A trail passed through Iron Mountain from Little
Falls to Twin Falls, which cut off a bend in the river. A village
site and burying ground have been located near the north end of
the trail.
SITES IDENTIFIED
Village ------------ 1
Burying ground _ 1
TOWNSHIPS

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TOWNSHIPS
Lebanon 9.
Essex 10.
Greenbush 11.
Du Plain 12.
Dallas 13.
Bengal 14.
Bingham 15.
Ovid 16.

Westphalia
Riley
Olive
Victor
Eagle
Watertown
DeWitt
Bath

1. Sagola
2. Felch
3. West Branch
4. Breitung

5. Norway
6. Breen
7. Waucedah

CRAWFORD COUNTY
(Map 12)
Three or four reports have been made of sites in this county,
but the nearest approach to certainty, after a few days of travel,
was the "vague" information about a mound upon the north
branch of the Au Sable River, Lovells Township. See notes upon
Oscoda County.
SITE IDENTIFIED
Mound ---------- 1

EATON COUNTY
(Map 5)
Groups of mounds were to be found in Bellevue and Walton
townships, but there were no others in the county, so far as reports, records, and surveys indicate. The site of what is now
the city of Charlotte, was extensive Indian cornfields. The two
railroads that cross at Charlotte follow old Indian paths, as stated
by the engineers who surveyed them. See chapter upon "Trails."
Three villages were situated within or near the present limits
of Grand Ledge and there was one in the northeast corner of Kalamo Township.
SITES IDENTIFIED
Villages ----------8
Burying grounds -- 3
Mounds ----------- 5

TOWNSHIPS
1. Frederic 4. Grayling
2. Maple Forest 5. Beaver Creek
3. Lovells 6. South Branch

TOWNSHIPS

1. Sunfield
2. Roxand
3. Oneida
4. Delta
5. Vermontville
6. Chester
7. Benton
8. Windsor

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Kalamo
Carmel
Eaton
Eaton Rapids
Bellevue
Walton
Brookfield
Hamlin

DELTA COUNTY
(Map 19)
For general description of the Green Bay region reference
should be made to notes upon Menominee County. As the
situation, topography, and water frontage suggest, there were,
without doubt, many more sites in Delta than the map indicates.
The entire Upper Peninsula is almost devoid of earthworks,
but there were permanent and temporary villages and trails. From
the head of Little Bay de Noc a direct trail crossed the peninsula
to Munising Bay, Lake Superior, Alger County. A trail led from
near the head of Big Bay de Noc to Indian Lake near Manistique in
Schoolcraft County. Whitefish and Sturgeon rivers afforded easy
access by canoe to the hinterland. If the reader will refer to the
chapter upon "Waterways and Portages," he will find the Whitefish route across the peninsula more fully described.

EMMET COUNTY
(Map 13)
From the earliest historic times to the present, Emmet County
has been exceedingly interesting to the student of local archaeology. Old Fort Mackinac was very near the border between Emmet and Cheboygan counties. The Lake Michigan shore from the
Fort to Little Traverse Bay had a village every few miles, although
the exact situation of some of them cannot be determined. "The
eagle's eye cannot discover where stood the wigwam and the peaceful council fire." Before L'Arbre Croche, or the L'Arbre Croche

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