Community Organizations

Keweenaw County Historical Society

Local History

The name is French for grey beast and is believed to have been so named by some one who saw one of the shore, though some hold that the name is derived from the outline of the bay, or the shore, or the crest of the hills along it.

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

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