Editing Powers, Michigan (section)

==History==
At an early date, the place was called "Menominee River Junction", because here was the junction between the main railroad line and the Menominee River Branch.<ref name="Stennett">Stennett, William H. 1908. ''A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways.'' Chicago, p. 115.</ref> The origin of the name "Powers" is uncertain. Several sources claim the village was named after Edward Powers, a [[civil engineer]] involved in building the railroad there.<ref name="Stennett"/><ref>Romig, Walter. 1973. ''Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities.'' Detroit: Wayne State University Press, p. 457.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Spalding Hotel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/467932/spalding_hotel/|newspaper=The Escanaba Daily Press|date=April 26, 1969|page=5|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = November 18, 2014 }} {{Open access}}</ref> <!-- Cryptic statement (what is a "rain maker", and why would someone be "notorious" for being one?): Edward Powers afterwards became notorious as a professed "rain maker".<ref name="Stennett"/> --> Another source claims the village was founded in 1872 and named after Tom Powers, an engineer for the [[Chicago & North Western Railroad]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.powers-spalding.org/history.html |title=History of Powers Spalding Michigan |access-date=June 29, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20081121100002/http://www.powers-spalding.org/history.html |archive-date=November 21, 2008 }}</ref>