Cemeteries in Seney, Michigan

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The historic community of Seney began as a railroad stop in 1881. Soon after, logging companies moved into the area to lumber the white pine forests in the surrounding region. Seney quickly grew to over 3,000 people.

In his story, “Big Two-Hearted River,” Hemingway's narrator, Nick Adams, tells of a fire that destroyed the town, but this never happened. By 1919 the countless acres of pine were gone and the town had shrunk to only a few buildings. Only one building was burned, although not because of a forest fire.

Because the north branch and the east branch are distinct streams, it was said there were two hearts pumping to form the main river.

The settlement was first called Nanaimo. Influenced by the rapid flow of miners and homesteaders to the area, the bachelor brothers, Donald C. and Alexander MacKinnon, acquired land here about 1878, and had J.A. Van Cleve plat the village as Iron River, which was registered September 20, 1881.

The portion of M-28 between Seney and Shingleton, called the Seney Stretch, is 25 miles (40 km) of "straight-as-an-arrow highway" across the Great Manistique Swamp, "though others claim it's 50 miles [80 km], only because it seems longer." The Seney Stretch is the longest such section of highway in the state, and "one ...

Lake County started of in 1840 as Aischum County after a chief. In 1843, the county was renamed for the area lakes. The first, non-Native American settler to the area was Lorenzo Conklin. He settled there in 1862.

The village itself was platted in 1836 by Isaac Swain, a wealthy local farmer. A flour mill was built by Isaac and William Van Fossen on the north side of the river in 1837 and became the foundation of the local economy for the next few decades. Concord became a small village as more settlers arrived and built houses.