The Origin of Winnemac

The name Winnemac comes from Chief Winnemac, who was an important leader of the Potawatomi Indian tribe. He was a signer of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, in which Great Lakes tribes surrendered the site of Chicago to the U.S. government.

Winnemac is also a fictional state in the United States invented by the writer Sinclair Lewis. He described Winnemac as, "bounded by Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and like them it is half Eastern, half Midwestern. There is a feeling of New England in its brick and sycamore villages, its stable industries, and a tradition which goes back to the Revolutionary War."

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