Editing Bad Axe, Michigan (section)

==History==
The city was established in 1905.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.cityofbadaxe.com/|title=City of Bad Axe, Michigan|publisher= City of Bad Axe, Michigan |access-date=August 25, 2012}}</ref> The city's [[Place names considered unusual|unusual name]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Don Voorhees|title=The Super Book of Useless Information: The Most Powerfully Unnecessary Things You Never Need to Know|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QCF8FGLYvYcC&pg=PT67|date=4 October 2011|publisher=Penguin Group US|isbn=978-1-101-54513-3|page=67}}</ref> dates to the time of its settlement. While surveying the first state road through the Huron County wilderness in 1861, Rudolph Papst and [[George Willis Pack]] made camp at the future site of the city and found a much-used and badly damaged [[axe]]. At Pack's suggestion, Papst used the name “Bad Axe Camp” in the minutes of the survey and on a sign he placed along the main trail.<ref>[http://www.thehchs.org/badaxe/ba_history.htm Local History – How Bad Axe got its Name]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=21616 |title= Profile for Bad Axe, Michigan, MI |publisher= ePodunk|access-date=August 24, 2012}}</ref> The first post office in Bad Axe was established in 1870.{{sfn|Romig|1986|page=38}}