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Alcona County History and map
Excerted from Bowen's Michigan State Atlas
Excerpted from Bowen's Michigan state atlas by B.F. Bowen & Co.
132 ALCONA COUNTY. Alcona county was first laid:out in 1840 and was first called Negwegon, after a well known Chippewa chief. It was afterwards named Alcona, meaning, "A fine or excellent plain," and was organized as a county in 1869. It is one of the eastern, tier. of counties and is located towards the northern part of the Lower Peninsula. The total land area is 435,247.34 acres, of which 105,000 acres are in farms, producing good crops. The population is 5,703 (1910 census). The valuation of taxable property as estimated by the state board of tax commissioners in 1911, is $2,921,885. The county has a large lake frontage, being bounded entirely on the east by Lake Huron..There are 43 schools which were attended by 1,557 pupils last year, requiring the services of 48 teachers. The 'county has telephone, telegraph and rural mail service, 3 banks and 2 newspapers. One paper is published at Harrisville and-the other at Lincoln. Harrisville, which is the county seat, has a population of about' 500 and is located on the main line, of-the Detroit:'& Mackinac Railroad, --o the: wst shore -of Lake Huron in Harrisville township, 'about 20.0 miles above Detroit, 100 above Bay City and 34 miles south bf Alpelia. There are Baptist, Catholic,' Presbyterian and Methodist churches, new six-room high school,,court house, -.agricultural hall, good hotel, roller flouring-mills, creamery, contract seed house, electric lightiig plant, a bank and one nespaper.. The other principal towns are Lincoln and Mikado, both -located _on the Detrdit & Mackinac RIailroad to the southwest of Harrisville-each havinig a. bank-air-d churches of different denominations, hotel, flour-mills, etc. The principal transportation facilities of the county are the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad and the Aul Sable & Northwestern Railroad. P
132 ALCONA COUNTY. Alcona county was first laid:out in 1840 and was first called Negwegon, after a well known Chippewa chief. It was afterwards named Alcona, meaning, "A fine or excellent plain," and was organized as a county in 1869. It is one of the eastern, tier. of counties and is located towards the northern part of the Lower Peninsula. The total land area is 435,247.34 acres, of which 105,000 acres are in farms, producing good crops. The population is 5,703 (1910 census). The valuation of taxable property as estimated by the state board of tax commissioners in 1911, is $2,921,885. The county has a large lake frontage, being bounded entirely on the east by Lake Huron..There are 43 schools which were attended by 1,557 pupils last year, requiring the services of 48 teachers. The 'county has telephone, telegraph and rural mail service, 3 banks and 2 newspapers. One paper is published at Harrisville and-the other at Lincoln. Harrisville, which is the county seat, has a population of about' 500 and is located on the main line, of-the Detroit:'& Mackinac Railroad, --o the: wst shore -of Lake Huron in Harrisville township, 'about 20.0 miles above Detroit, 100 above Bay City and 34 miles south bf Alpelia. There are Baptist, Catholic,' Presbyterian and Methodist churches, new six-room high school,,court house, -.agricultural hall, good hotel, roller flouring-mills, creamery, contract seed house, electric lightiig plant, a bank and one nespaper.. The other principal towns are Lincoln and Mikado, both -located _on the Detrdit & Mackinac RIailroad to the southwest of Harrisville-each havinig a. bank-air-d churches of different denominations, hotel, flour-mills, etc. The principal transportation facilities of the county are the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad and the Aul Sable & Northwestern Railroad. P
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