Local History

It began as an iron mining settlement named Breen after the mine discovered in 1866 and opened in 1871 by Thomas and Bently Breen.  A station on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. 

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

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