12/22/2023 0 Comments Escanaba in da moonlight![]() ![]() Joseph’s, was built in Escanaba.ġ866: Escanaba incorporated as a village. The first locomotive was brought by barge from Green Bay.ġ865: The first church, St. Peninsula Railroad was completed and the first iron ore shipped. He platted the city in 1864 and later became its post-master, judge of probate, alderman, village president, city engineer and prosecuting attorney.ġ863: Construction began on the Peninsula Rail-road from Negaunee to Escanaba and the first iron ore docks at Escanaba were built. The first post office in the area was opened in Flat Rock and closed the same year.ġ854: Elijah P. A log building, the first erected in Escanaba, was built on the shore of the bay near the present municipal dock. Kerfoot of Chicago.ġ850: Garden and Kates Bay were settled for the first time by white people.ġ852: White pine was cut from the present site of Escanaba. Darius Clark built a sawmill on the Whitefish River near Rapid River.ġ848: A sawmill was built on the Sturgeon River near Nahma by George Richards and S.H. Calvin Howard became the first white child born in Delta County, at Flat Rock. Gena was the Delta County seat of government from 1860 to 1864, when the county records and offices were moved to Escanaba. It was later sold to the Nelson Ludington Company.ġ847: Lumber mill was built at Masonville (then called Gena). Roberts was alleged to be of Native American origin.ġ836: First water-powered lumber mill was built in Flat Rock by a man named Alden Chandler.ġ844: First steam-powered lumber mill was built on the Ford River at Uppertown by the Smith brothers, John and Joseph. He was the first European settler recorded in Delta County. Roberts, a fur trader, and his wife settled on the banks of the Escanaba River near Flat Rock. ![]() Remains of the Native American cemetery there can still be seen.ġ830: L.A. We surmise that later it was spelled Nocquet and then shortened to Noc by English speaking people.ġ780: It is known that five families of Native Americans of the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomi tribes settled at Misery Bay in Ford River township. These Native Americans were called the Nokay Indians, or Nocquet, as the French wrote it. 60 churches in 28 different denominationsġ619: It is likely that French adventurer Etienne Brule was the first European known to have visited the Up-per Peninsula, visiting the Delta County area on his way westward.ġ634: Jean Nicolet passed this way, on his way to Wisconsin looking for the “Northwest Passage.”ġ659: Jesuit missionaries from France recorded that Native American villages were found at the head of Little Bay de Noc near Rapid River.748,160 acres of hunting land in the Hiawatha National Forest.The present are of the county is 1,170 square miles, ranging from 600 to 1,000 feet above sea level. The population figures of its two incorporated cities, Escanaba and Gladstone, are 13,659 and 4,569, respectively. Census figures, the population of Delta County is 38,520. This territory resembled a triangle or the Greek letter Delta-hence the name. When Delta County was plotted in 1843, it included not only its present territory but also all of Menominee County and parts of Dickinson, Iron, and Marquette counties. It is located about fifty miles from the Wisconsin boundary line at Menominee and approximately 120 miles west of the Straits of Mackinac. Delta County is located on the shore of Little Bay de Noc and the connecting water of Lake Michigan.
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