Editing Mason County, Michigan (section)

==History==
[[Image:1842 Manistee Kawtawwabet Missaukee Mickenauk Ogemaw Kanotin Notipeskago Aishcum Unwattin Kaykakee Gladwin Arenac 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 Mason County as "Notipeskago" (a misspelling of Notipekago, the county's name from 1840 to 1843.<ref name=Newberry/>) Several nearby counties are also shown with names that would later be changed.]]
The county is named for [[Stevens T. Mason]], Governor of Michigan from 1835 to 1840.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z8NRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0lUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6666%2C2546788|title=Focus on our history: How county was named|work=Ludington Daily News|date=October 3, 1987|access-date=April 30, 2015|page=2}}</ref> It was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as '''Notipekago 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 Mason County in 1843. The county was administered by [[Ottawa County, Michigan|Ottawa County]] prior to the organization of county government in 1855.<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|website=Atlas of County Historical Boundaries|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name="clarke">{{cite web |url=http://clarke.cmich.edu/resource_tab/bibliographies_of_clarke_library_material/michigan_local_history/county_material/mason.html|publisher=[[Clarke Historical Library]], [[Central Michigan University]]|title=Bibliography on Mason County|access-date=January 20, 2013}}</ref>