Omena, Michigan
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Omena is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place in Leelanau Township of Leelanau County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 295. Overlooki
Looking northeast along M-22
Benjamin Grierson
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Benjamin Henry Grierson was a music teacher from Illinois who, although afraid of horses, volunteered for service in the cavalry during the Civil War, commanding a cavalry division Army of the Tenness
Omena, Michigan
…of services during the summer months. It was a stop on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad and was regarded as a summer resort area. Among others, Benjamin Grierson, a U.S. Civil War general, had a summer home in Omena, as did General Byron Cutcheon. Omena is derived from an Ojibwe expression, "o-me-nah", meaning…
Portrait of Grierson
Grierson's house in Jacksonville.
Union Cavalry Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson (seated with hand resting on chin) and staff
Colonel Grierson at Medicine Bluff Creek when establishing Fort Sill during the winter of 1868-1869.