The county's name is said to be a Native American word meaning " delight of life ", but it is a neologism made up by Indian agent and ethnographer Henry Schoolcraft, who sometimes gave the name " Leelinau " to Native American women in his tales.

The township was formally organized in 1842, and was named by Henry Schoolcraft who came up with a pseudo Native American name he claimed meant " hill land for excellent living.

His family owned and operated a dairy farm while he was growing up, in Schoolcraft, Michigan.

They turned south through southern Dent and Shannon counties where Schoolcraft found the Current River, " a fine stream with fertile banks and clear, sparkling water .” Today these features attract tourists — particularly floaters who launch canoes by the thousands during the summer to enjoy the springs, caves and fast-moving water of the Current and Jack's Fork Rivers in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

The county is named in honor of Henry Schoolcraft, who explored the area with the expedition of Lewis Cass.

* Youngs was the name of a post office in the township at, near the southern boundary with Seney Township in Schoolcraft County.

Three years later, in 1846, the act was amended to make all that part of the state " embraced between the north boundary of township 49, the line between ranges 37 and 38 west and Lake Superior, together with islands in said lake west of the county of Schoolcraft, shall be laid off as a separate county, to be known and designated as the County of Houghton.

It is thought the name was an invention of Henry Schoolcraft, who had similarly invented the names of many other Michigan counties and townships by blending elements from diverse Native American languages with other languages such as Latin and Arabic.

The township also extends about northward along the entire eastern boundary between Delta County and Schoolcraft County to the northern boundary of Delta with Schoolcraft.

Schoolcraft is located on a prairie, and much of the land outside of the village is used as farm land, with the primary crops being corn and soybeans.

It was on this journey that Schoolcraft, with the help of an educated missionary companion, created the name Itasca from the Latin words for " truth " and " head " ( veritas caput ).< ref name =" DNRweb "> Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Itasca.

" Hiawatha was not " another name for the same personage " ( the mistaken identification of the trickster figure was made first by Schoolcraft and compounded by Longfellow ), but a probable historical figure associated with the founding of the League of the Iroquois, the Five Nations then located in present-day New York and Pennsylvania.

Schoolcraft " made confusion worse ... by transferring the hero to a distant region and identifying him with Manabozho, a fantastic divinity of the Ojibways.

In 1856 Schoolcraft published The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians, reprinting ( with a few changes ) stories previously published in his Algic Researches and other works.

Her knowledge of the Ojibwe language and of Ojibwe legends, which she shared with Schoolcraft, formed in part the source material for Longfellow's epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha.

Her support of slavery and opposition to mixed-race unions created strains in her relationship with the Schoolcraft stepchildren.

In names such as Alcona, Algoma, Allegan, Alpena, Arenac, Iosco, Kalkaska, Oscoda and Tuscola, for example, Schoolcraft combined words and syllables from Native American languages with words and syllables from Latin and Arabic.

When the Whig Party came to power in 1841 with the election of William Henry Harrison, Schoolcraft lost his political position as Indian agent.

She died the next year during a visit with a sister in Canada, while Schoolcraft was traveling in Europe.

In the late nineteenth century, the ethnographer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft recorded the purported Catawba traditions about their history, including that they had lived in Canada until driven out by the Iroquois ( supposedly with French help ).

M-5 ends at the interchange with I-96 between Schoolcraft and Plymouth roads in the middle of another larger commercial zone ; Grand River Avenue continues from this location as an unsigned highway numbered internally as OLD BS I-96 all the way into downtown.

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an Indian agent for the territory, was credited with formally naming the county, and was said to use Leelinau as a character in his writing.

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an Indian agent for the territory, was credited with formally naming the county, and was said to use Leelinau as a character in his writing.

Brown was born in Schoolcraft, Michigan to a family with a political background in Michigan.

Schoolcraft dedicated the book to Longfellow, whose work he praised highly.

Schoolcraft was a key member of the 1820 Cass Expedition, organized by territorial governor Lewis Cass to explore the Michigan Territory ; the expedition played an important role in encouraging settlement of the territory.

Schoolcraft County is a county in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan.

Schoolcraft Upper Elementary-The Upper Elementary in Schoolcraft consists of grades 3, 4, and 5, and currently has 342 students enrolled.

Manistique, also Monistique, is the only incorporated city in and the county seat of Schoolcraft County of the U. S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

* Indian River ( Manistique River ), in Alger and Schoolcraft counties in the Upper Peninsula

Seney is an unincorporated community in Schoolcraft County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States.

Explorers and scientists crossing the portage included David Thompson, British explorer of Canada and North West Fur Company cartographer, in 1798 ; Zebulon Pike, early explorer of the American west, in 1805 ; Lewis Cass, American general and explorer, in his unsuccessful 1820 search for the source of the Mississippi River ; Henry Schoolcraft, geologist and explorer, who accompanied Cass in 1820 and led an expedition in 1832 to find the Mississippi's source ; Joseph Nicollet, French geographer and cartographer of the Upper Mississippi, in 1836 ; and Laurence Oliphant, a British explorer and writer, in 1854.

In 1832 Anishinaabe guide Ozawindib led explorer Henry Schoolcraft to the source of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca.

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft ( March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864 ) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River.

The nearby Schoolcraft River, the first major tributary of the Mississippi, was later named in his honor.

The Schoolcraft River in the region near the headwaters of the Mississippi.

The Schoolcraft River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 30 mi ( 48 km ) long, in northern Minnesota in the United States.

The river is named after Henry Schoolcraft, who mapped the region and discovered nearby Lake Itasca as the source of the Mississippi in 1831.

Houghton quickly was selected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft to act as physician-naturalist on expeditions through Lake Superior and the upper Mississippi valley in 1831 and 1832.

* Schoolcraft River, tributary of the Mississippi River in Minnesota

Schoolcraft traveled on to the Springfield area, then east on White River and north back to Potosi after a trip of 89 days.

* Schoolcraft River and Schoolcraft Lake in Minnesota.

Its name in the Ojibwe language is Ozaawindibe-ziibi ( Yellow-head River ), named after Ozaawindib who guided Schoolcraft to the near-by Omashkoozo-zaaga ' igan ( Elk Lake ), which Schoolcraft then named Lake Itasca.

* Schoolcraft River

* Schoolcraft River

It rises in a small lake on Hiawatha National Forest land in Alger County, Michigan at, flows through a lake district, then on through Schoolcraft County, and into the Indian River at.

Henry Schoolcraft in his Narratives in 1820 records the Rum River by its Ojibwe name Missisawgaiegon.

MDOT's surveys in 2010 showed that the highest traffic levels along M-39 were the 159, 400 vehicles daily between Schoolcraft Road and Grand River Avenue in Detroit ; the lowest counts were the 20, 400 vehicles per day between the I-94 and Van Born Road interchanges.