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Local History

Founded in 1882 as the logging headquarters of the Vulcan Furnace Company and first called Grant's Corner.  It was renamed for Detroit industrialist Truman H. Newberry and given a post office on June 21, 1882.  Platted under the supervision of W. O. Strong and the land commissioner of the Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette Railroad in 1887, in which year it became the county seat.  It had been in Chippewa County until Luce was organized in 1887. 

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

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