It was then attached to Manistee County in 1855, before being organized on its own in 1869. In 1851, Wexford County was attached to Grand Traverse County for administrative purposes. In 1843, legislators renamed the county Wexford, after County Wexford in Ireland. The county was established by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Kautawaubet County, after a Potawatomi phrase meaning "broken tooth," and the name of a local Potawatomi chief. ) Several nearby counties are also shown with names that would later be changed. ![]() See also: History of Northern Michigan A detail from A New Map of Michigan with its Canals, Roads & Distances (1842) by Henry Schenck Tanner, showing Wexford County as "Kawtawwabet" (a misspelling of Kautawaubet, the county's name from 1840 to 1843.
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