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The name is derived from "Minissing", an Ojibwe word meaning island in a lake, for the nearby Grand Island (Michigan)Grand Island. The town began in 1850 as a company town on the east side of the bay, when the Munising Iron Company bought land there and platted a community first known as "Old Munising" and later as "East Munising". The first post office was opened in 1868 and closed in 1873 after the Munising Iron Company failed. The office's existence over the next few decades fluctuated as various other iron companies came and went in an attempt to continue operations there. In 1894, Timothy Nestor and associates began what became the present city at the south end of the bay and platted it in 1895. A post office opened there in 1896. The community incorporated as a village in 1897 and as a city in 1915. It has been the county seat of Alger County since 1902. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munising%2C_Michigan
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