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Address: 1630 County Road 424, Stambaugh Ownership: Public-Iron County History: The Michigan History Division, Department of State dedicated this property at Pentoga Park in June 1980. The inscription on the sign recognizing the registration reads: "Here, in October 1851, U.S. Suryeror Guy H. Carleton discovered an Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indian Village, cemetery and camp ground. Chief Edwards, last ruler at Chicagoan Lake, received a patent for this land in 1884. Selling it in 1891, he and his wife Pentoga for whom this area is named, moved to the Lac Vieux Desert area. By 1903 only a few burial houses and a brush fence remained from the ancient village. Iron County engineer Herbert Larson, Sr. convinced the county to buy the property and restore it as a park honoring the area's first inhabitants. It was dedicated in 1922." Tom King, an Indian, maintained a half-way house here also. It was the county's first hostelry. The cemetery was located on what was known as "Badwater" Trail and was the regional burial grounds for the Chippewas. |
