Local History

Named from its location on Waiska Bay.  James Norris & Company established a lumber business here in 1875.  After fire destroyed the Hall & Munson lumber mills in 1904, the village began to vanish.  Its post office was closed on November 30, 1909.  Now an Indian reservation. 

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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