Sidnaw is an unincorporated community in southern Houghton County

Houghton County, Michigan

-National protected areas:* Keweenaw National Historical Park * Ottawa National Forest -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 36,016 people, 13,793 households, and 8,137 families residing in the county. The population density was 36 people per square mile . There were 17,748 housing...

, Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

, United States

United States

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. Sidnaw is located in Duncan Township

Duncan Township, Michigan

Duncan Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 280.- Communities :...

 along M-28

M-28 (Michigan highway)

M-28 is an east–west state trunkline highway that almost completely traverses the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan, from Wakefield to near Sault Ste. Marie in Bruce Township...

, 21 miles (33.8 km) southwest of L'Anse

L'Anse, Michigan

L'Anse is a village in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Baraga County. The population was 2,107 at the 2000 census. The village is located within L'Anse Township....

. Sidnaw has a post office

Post office

A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...

 with ZIP code

ZIP Code

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 49961.

History

Sidnaw was founded by lumber

Lumber

Lumber or timber is wood in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production....

 companies harvesting white pine

White Pine

-Trees:* Trees in the pine subgenus Pinus subgenus Strobus** Eastern White Pine , one of these species, native to northeastern North America...

 in the area. The community was first plat

Plat

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ted by Thomas Nester in 1889. Sidnaw had a station on the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway

Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway

The Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway was an American railroad serving the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Lake Superior shoreline of Wisconsin. It provided service from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and St. Ignace, Michigan, westward through Marquette, Michigan to Superior, Wisconsin,...

. A post office opened in Sidnaw on December 7, 1889; George Garland was the first postmaster. The community's name comes from an American Indian

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

word meaning "small hill by a creek".