Talk:Bad Axe, Michigan

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Unusual name, does anyone know the origin?

Yes, from a broken axe that was found when the area was being surveyed:

Bad Axe, the county seat, had its beginnings in the wilderness around 1865. A military surveyor, Captain Randolph Pabst, named a camp site at the meeting of two major trails "Bad Axe Camp" on his charts, supposedly after an old rusted axe left at the campsite by local hunters. From "Bad Axe Camp" to "Bad Axe Corners", and then finally incorporated as the village "Bad Axe", on March 19, 1885, the name still stands today. Several attempts to change the name occurred in the early years, but Captain Pabst, a survivor of 22 major battles in the Civil War, came back from his home in Lexington twice to demand preservation of the name. An old axe-head, embedded in a small section of a tree and believed to be the original camp axe, is displayed at the Bad Axe Library yet today.

http://main.badaxelibrary.org

You know who lives in Bad Axe?

A lot of Bad Axe Mother Fletchers!

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