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Interlochen
Located in Grand Traverse County Northwestern Michigan |
State Parks and Camping in Michigan
Local History
Named from its location between two lakes, to which their Indian names have been restored: Lake Wahbekaness (Water Lingers), formerly Duck Lake, and Lake Wahbekanetta (Water Lingers Again), formerly Green Lake. Partly the site of the ghost town of Wylie, a station on the M. & N.E. and the C. & N.M. Railroads.
Storekeeper James R. Lee became its first postmaster on July 26, 1890.
Willis Pennington, a Quaker, came here about 1900, he opened a drug store and later a children's camp. In 1927, he induced Professor Joseph Edgar Maddy, head of the Music education Department at the University of Michigan, to locate his National High School Orchestra Camp Association (now the National Music Camp) here. The Interlochen Arts Academy followed in 1962.
Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.