Sunday Afternoon Post: Epoufette

In 1859 Amable Goudreau, a French-Canadian fisherman from Quebec, traveled to the upper peninsula of Michigan and founded a small commercial fishing venture on the northern shores of Lake Michigan.  A town emerged out of this operation, Epoufette.

Some of his descendants still live in the small town today, proof that the Franco-North American presence did not leave Michigan when Frenchtown (Monroe) got sacked in the War of 1812.  Many of the town names in the eastern upper peninsula, in fact, have French names.