- Luce County -

Luce county is located in the eastern part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and is bounded on the north by Lake Superior, east by Chippewa county, west by Alger and Schoolcraft, and south by Mackinaw county. It was set off from Chippewa in 1887 and named after Cyrus G. Luce, Governor of Michigan from 1887 - 1891. Luce county has a total area of 1,912 square miles which includes 1,013 square miles of water. The county seat, and largest village is Newberry

Early in 1882 the site of the present village of Newberry was an unbroken wilderness, but within a few months a clearing of about thirty acres had been made for the site of the Vulcan Furnace and cottages of those to be connected with the enterprise. Within a year twenty or thirty neat houses stood occupied. Weller & Burt had opened a general store and a boarding house was in operation. The village was incorporated in 1885.