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Hi, my name is Janet and I welcome you to the Presque Isle County Website. I am looking for transcribers, so if you would like to help or contribute, please contact me.If the other link doesn't work, contact me at pi.genealogy@gmail.com

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The boundaries of Presque Isle County were established in 1840, but the county government was not put into place until 1871. The name, which is French, means "almost an island" and was given because of the narrow peninsula which juts several miles into Lake Huron. There are 72 miles of Lake Huron shore line in the county.

Rogers City is the county seat and principle town, still being the world's largest limestone quarry. Other towns are Posen, Metz, Hawks, Millersburg and Onaway, which were all on the Detroit and Mackinac railroad line, and Belknap, Bruningville, Grace, Hagensville, Huron Beach, Moltke, Ocqueoc, Orchard and Polaski.

Townships are: Allis, Bearinger, Belknap, Bismarck, Case, Krakow, Metz, Moltke, North Allis, Ocqueoc, Posen, Presque Isle, Pulawski,and Rogers

New Names: LaRoche = Hawks, Adakaska=Shaw=Onaway
Ghost towns include: Allis, Bell, Bolton,Calcite or Crawford's Quarry, Cathro,Crow's Dam, Grace (Grace's Harbor),Hurst, Liske, Petersville, Providence, and South Rogers. On the RR map were: Austens, Big Cut, Bunton, Case, Fisher, Hoffman,Hurst, Liske, May Lake Junction, McPhee,Moltke, Nagel, Pack Siding, Polaski, Quarry,Rainy Lake, Rogers Mills (Rogers City), Roger City Junction, Sobieski.



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Presque Isle County is bordered by Alpena County, Cheboygan County, and Montmorency County.


WHAT'S NEW!!


6/10/09 - added Bearinger & Krakow Township WebsitesBearinger Township
Krakow Township
6/5/09 - Moltke Twp. Cem. updated
5/28/09 - OHS graduates of 2009
5/22/09 - updates on Hillcrest Cemetery
5/12/09 - First reading of Riverside Cemetery added
1/04/09 - Obituaries for 2008 from Onaway Outlook and PI Advance
11/12/08 - First reading of Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery





Index to Presque Isle County Local History Page


Biographies
Birth/Marriage/Death
Vital Records Info
Cemeteries
Census
Churches
1926 Onaway May Term of Court
Death Certificates
Onaway
Directories
Family Pages
Genealogical & Historical Societies
Histories
Libraries & Museums
Lookups
Maps
Dibean Marriage Index
MI USGenWeb Archives
MI Tombstone Transcription
& Photo Project
Military
Miscellaneous
Newspapers
Obituaries
Onaway City Mayors
Onaway Police Force
Photo Album
1875 Posen Twp. Officials
Postmasters of Hawks
Posen Postmasters
Postmasters of Onaway
Presque Isle County Offsite Resources
Publications
1872 Roger City Village Officers
Schools
Sheriffs of Presque Isle County
Shipwrecks
Surnames
Township Websites
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