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==History== {{See also|Northern Michigan#History}} The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as '''Cheonoquet 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|website=Atlas of County Historical Boundaries|access-date=November 4, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728071340/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/MI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |archive-date=July 28, 2018}}</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> after a well-known [[Chippewa]] (also known as [[Ojibwa]]) Chief, whose name meant Big Cloud.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXV5AAAAMAAJ&q=Cheonoquet&pg=PA99|title=A History of Northern Michigan and Its People|work=google.com|last1=Powers|first1=Perry F.|year=1912}}</ref> Cheonoquet took part in Indian treaties in 1807, 1815, 1825 and 1837.<ref name=MCG>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~mimontmo/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214001012/http://www.rootsweb.com/~mimontmo/|url-status=dead|title=Montmorency County genealogical page.|archivedate=December 14, 2007}}</ref><ref name=MC>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060502221244/http://www.montmorencycountymichigan.us/ Montmorency County home page.]}}</ref> Renamed Montmorency County on March 8, 1843,<ref name=Newberry/> it was originally spelled Montmorenci, and historians conjecture this reflects the area's French-Canadian influence: the French Duke of Montmorency purchased a lieutenant governorship in Canada and the first [[archbishop]] of Canada—Montmorency-Laval—both could be influences on the county's name. (There was no "Count Morenci" aiding the American Revolution). The county was organized in 1881.<ref name=Clarke/> The reason for the change in spelling is subject to some dispute.<ref name=MC/> ''See'' [[List of Michigan county name etymologies]]. The name Montmorency probably means Mountain Moor. Montmorency is a boggy land or moor that is at the top of a broad mount or highland. When the county was organized in 1881, some land area was taken from [[Cheboygan County, Michigan|Cheboygan]] and [[Alpena County, Michigan|Alpena]] counties. Three townships were divided: [[Briley Township, Michigan|Briley]], [[Montmorency Township, Michigan|Montmorency]] and [[Rust Township, Michigan|Rust]]. By 1901 [[Albert Township, Michigan|Albert]], [[Hillman Township, Michigan|Hillman Township]] and [[Vienna Township, Montmorency County, Michigan|Wheatfield]] were added. Brush Creek, now known as [[Hillman, Michigan|Hillman]], was the first county seat. In 1891 the county seat was moved to Atlanta.<ref name=MCG/> [[File:Outline Map of Montmorency County, Michigan (1903).jpg|thumb|Montmorency County map published in 1903 Plat book of Alpena, Presque Isle and Montmorency Counties]]
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