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county. No courts have been held for years. The county offices are vacant a large portion of the time, there is no jail, debts cannot be collected by process of law, nor are any of the forms of law complied with. I recommend the county organization be discontinued and the territory be attached to the county of
Charlevoix.” No action was taken at the time, but when the issue came up again in 1895, the Legislature agreed and made the Beaver Islands part of
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Legislature to do so: “I submit herewith petitions and correspondence relative to the affairs in the county of Manitou. They show that the laws of the State and the United States are violated with impunity, and that there is no safety or protection to persons or property in portions of this
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in 1853 and again in 1855. Due in large part to fear of and animosity towards Strang's religious sect and concerns over the political strength his following gave him, petitions were presented to the legislature to detach Beaver and the Fox
Islands from Emmet and form them into a separate county. This
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Michigan history", Strang's nearly 2,600 Latter Day Saint subjects were driven forcibly from Beaver Island by non-Mormons. With the Mormon population gone, the civil government of Manitou County was abandoned, and Manitou was attached in 1861 to Mackinac
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At the time of its extinction, the population of
Manitou County was 917, with a total of 177 on the Manitou and Fox Islands and 740 on the Beaver Islands. South Manitou Island became part of
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County. In 1865, the attachment was changed to
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Manitou Islands were included in the new county and gave it their name, despite being nearly unpopulated at the time.
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167:"King Strang" was assassinated in 1856, and in what historian
282:"Leelanau Enterprise » Manitou meant more than islands"
248:"The Leelanau Post: The Mormon kingdom on Beaver Island"
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
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314:Historic Michigan, land of the Great Lakes
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228:List of former United States counties
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130:Grand Traverse County, Michigan
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306:History of Northern Michigan
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141:Latter-day Saint movement
16:Former county in Michigan
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106:Treaty of Washington
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366:History of Michigan
198:Glen Arbor Township
162:St. James Township
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206:Leelanau Township
187:Charlevoix County
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135:In 1847,
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