Nekomenon

Nekomenon is an Indigenous name recorded for the river later called the Dead River, which runs through the wooded hills of the Upper Peninsula to Lake Superior. Its waters enter the lake near Presque Isle, after a course fed by numerous streams. The French called it Rivière des Morts, or River of the Dead. Long before the later mining towns of this region appeared, people travelled and lived along the shores and rivers of the great lake.