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Quinnesec, Dickinson County: John L. Bell discovered the Quinnesex Mine in 1871 and successfully developed it; he founded this village which followed from it and which was platted in 1876; Roscoe G. Brown became its first postmaster on Sept. 25, 1877; a station on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad; then in Menominee County, it was transferred to Dickinson on Oct. 1, 1871; the name is Indian for smokey waters, referring to the mist hanging over the nearby Menominee River (PM; Havinghurst; PO Archives) --Michigan Place Names, Walter Romig, publisher, Grosse Point Michigan, 1905
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