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3 unusual facts about Menominee


Enstrom Helicopter Corporation

The Enstrom Helicopter Corporation is a Chinese-owned design and manufacturing company, based at the Menominee-Marinette Twin County Airport (ICAO airport code: KMNM) in Michigan, United States.

Mary Cecilia Bailly

This homestead was much traveled by various Native American tribes, including the Menominee, Winnebago, Fox and Dakota Sioux.

Menominee, Wisconsin

Menominee is given as the birthplace of a caller on the sitcom Frasier in the episode "Kisses Sweeter than Wine."


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Alexian Brothers' Novitiate

Complicating this further, some people in Menominee, Gresham and the nearby city of Shawano sympathized with the Society and others didn't wish for the National Guard to be there.

Big Bay de Noc

As with the more thickly-settled Little Bay de Noc, the bay's name comes from the Noquet (or Noc) Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores.

Dudly Bug

The Dudly (also known as the Dudly Bug) was a brass era, gas powered cyclecar manufactured in Menominee, Michigan, by the Dudly Tool Company from 1913-15.

Gambrinus Brewing Co.

The brewery's main product was Chief Oshkosh Beer, named after the Menominee Chief Oshkosh (1795-1858).

Hit 106

WHYB, licensed to Menominee, Michigan, formerly branded as "Hits 106"

Little Bay de Noc

The bay's name comes from the Noquet (or Noc) Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores.

Monarda fistulosa

Wild bergamot was considered a medicinal plant by many Native Americans including the Menominee, the Ojibwe, and the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk).

Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Between 1954 and 1963, Lurie worked frequently as a researcher and expert witness for tribal petitioners in cases brought before the U. S. Indian Claims Commission, including Lower Kutenai (Ktunaxa), Lower Kalispe l(Kalispel), Quileute, Sac and Fox Nation, Winnebago (aka Ho-Chunk), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Eastern Potawatomi; after 1963 she appeared as an expert witness in regard to the Wisconsin Chippewa and Menominee in federal courts.

St. Joseph Church

Saint Joseph of the Lake Church and Cemetery, Menominee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Menominee County, Wisconsin

Theodore J. van den Broek

He made journeys of two hundred miles, to minister to Menominee and Ho-Chunk tribes.

Treaty of Fort Niagara

The 1764 Treaty of Fort Niagara was signed by Sir William Johnson for The Crown and 24 Nations from the Six Nations, Seneca, Wyandot of Detroit, Menominee, Algonquin, Nipissing, Ojibwa, Mississaugas, and others who were part of the Seven Nations of Canada and the Western Lakes Confederacy.


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