Editing Alpena County, Michigan (section)

==History==
[[Image:1842 Okkuddo Cheonoquet Anamickee Shawwano Oscoda Negwegon counties Michigan.jpg|thumb|A detail from ''[[:File:1842 A new map of Michigan with its canals roads distances by H.S. Tanner.jpg|A New Map of Michigan with its Canals, Roads & Distances]]'' (1842) by [[Henry Schenck Tanner]], showing Alpena County as Anamickee, the county's name from 1840 to 1843.<ref name=Newberry/> Several nearby counties are also shown with names that would later be changed.]]
{{see also|History of Northern Michigan}}
The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as '''Anamickee County''',<ref>{{cite book |author=George Dawson |date=1840 |title=Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan Passed at the Annual Session of 1840 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDg4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA196 |location=Detroit |pages=196–200}}</ref> then renamed in 1843 to Alpena County,<ref name=Newberry>{{cite web |url= http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/MI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |title= Michigan: Individual County Chronologies |author= Newberry Library |author-link= Newberry Library |website= Atlas of County Historical Boundaries |access-date= November 4, 2016 |archive-date= November 6, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161106151503/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/MI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |url-status= dead }}</ref> a pseudo-Native American word — a [[neologism]] coined by [[Henry Schoolcraft]], meaning "a good partridge country."<ref name="Clarke">{{cite web |url=https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke/AccessMaterials/Bibliographies/MichiganLocalHistory/Pages/alpena.aspx |publisher=[[Clarke Historical Library]], [[Central Michigan University]] |title=Bibliography on Alpena County|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Walter |last1=Romig |title=Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |work=Great Lakes Books Series |type=Paperback  |orig-year= 1973 |date=October 1, 1986 |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn=081431838X |location=Detroit, Michigan }}</ref><ref name="Herron">{{cite journal |url=http://nelsonherron.tripod.com/family/alpena/placenames.htm |title=A History of the Place Names of Alpena County |year=1962 |publication-date=1991–1992 |journal=Wilderness Chronicle |issue= 19–21 |last1=Herron |first1=Catherine |editor1-last=Herron |editor1-first=Nelson R. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040715191022/http://nelsonherron.tripod.com/family/alpena/placenames.htm |archive-date=July 15, 2004 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="place"/>  This was part of a much larger effort to rename a great many of the Michigan counties at the time.<ref name="place">{{cite web|url=http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_20826_20829-54126--,00.html |title=Michigan government on place names |access-date=January 18, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728130613/http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0%2C1607%2C7-160-15481_20826_20829-54126--%2C00.html |archive-date=July 28, 2009 }}</ref>  The Thunder Bay Band of Chippewa and Ottawa, the original indigenous inhabitants of the area, merged with the [[Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians]] in the mid 1800s under Chief Way-ge-maw-waw-be. The county was officially organized in 1857.<ref name="Clarke"/><ref name="place"/>