Editing Antrim County, Michigan (section)

==History==
[[Image:1842 Leelenaw Omeena Negissee Wabbassee Okkuddo Shawwano 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 Antrim County during the period when it was named Meegisee County, its name from 1840 to 1843.<ref name=NB/> The name is misspelled as "Negissee" on the map. Several nearby counties are also shown with names that would later be changed.]]
[[File:Elk River Chain of Lakes Map US MI.svg|thumb|Map of the [[Elk River Chain of Lakes Watershed|Chain of Lakes]], the watershed of which dominates much of western Antrim County.]]
{{See also|History of Northern Michigan}}
'''Meegisee County''' ({{IPAc-en|m|i:|g|ə|s|i}} {{respell|MEE|gə|see}}) was separated from [[Mackinac County, Michigan|Michilimackinac County]] as an unorganized county in 1840.<ref name="NB">{{cite web|url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/MI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|title=Michigan: Individual County Chronologies|author=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><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> It took its name from a [[Chippewa]] chief who signed the [[1821 Treaty of Chicago]] and the 1826 [[Treaty of Mississinewas]]. Meegisee also derives from the [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]] ''{{lang|oj|migizi}}'', meaning [[bald eagle]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=migizi (na) {{!}} The Ojibwe People's Dictionary |url=https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/migizi-na |access-date=January 21, 2023 |website=ojibwe.lib.umn.edu}}</ref> The county was renamed '''Antrim County''' in 1843,<ref name="NB" /> one of the Irish names given to five renamed Michigan counties at that time, supposedly in deference to the increasing number of settlers of Irish heritage in Michigan at that time. In the text of the 1843 legislative act, the name was misspelled as "Antim".<ref name="clarke">{{cite web|url=https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke/AccessMaterials/Bibliographies/MichiganLocalHistory/Pages/antrim.aspx|publisher=[[Clarke Historical Library]], [[Central Michigan University]]|title=Bibliography on Antrim County|access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref> In 1851, for governmental purposes, Antrim County was attached to [[Grand Traverse County, Michigan|Grand Traverse County]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=History in Grand Traverse County, Michigan |url=http://genealogytrails.com/mich/grandtraverse/history_county8.html |access-date=January 21, 2023 |website=genealogytrails.com}}</ref>

Separate county government was organized in 1863.<ref name=clarke/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.antrimcounty.org/historical.asp|title=History of Antrim County|publisher=Antrim County|access-date=September 28, 2014|archive-date=July 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723204059/http://www.antrimcounty.org/historical.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> The county seat was originally located in Elk Rapids, but was moved to Bellaire in 1904 after 25 years of litigation.<ref>Historic marker in front of Bellaire courthouse</ref> In 1950 its population was 10,721.<ref>Columbia Lippincott Gazetter, 1952, p. 80</ref>

[[YMCA Hayo-Went-Ha Camps|YMCA Camp Hayo-Went-Ha]], the oldest American summer camp that sits on its original site, was opened on the shore of [[Torch Lake (Antrim County, Michigan)|Torch Lake]] in Central Lake Township in 1904.

Antrim County, which has reliably elected Republicans, was in national headlines during the 2020 presidential election because the [[2020 United States presidential election in Michigan#Aftermath|unofficial tally]] showed Biden surprisingly ahead on election night.  When the County Clerk realized that it was caused by human error, she corrected the tally before submitting to the Secretary of State for [[2020 United States presidential election in Michigan#By county|certification]].  Nonetheless, this error and a [[Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Michigan#Bailey v. Antrim County|related lawsuit]] have been cited in multiple election conspiracies.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=How a County Clerk in Michigan Found Herself at the Center of Trump's Attempt to Overturn the Election |url=https://time.com/6128812/the-steal-antrim-county-michigan/ |access-date=February 3, 2023 |magazine=Time |language=en}}</ref>