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Alpem, a county of E. N. E. Michigan, on Lake Huron and Thunder bay, drained by Thun-der Bay river; area, 700 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 2,750. In 1870 there were only 319 acres of improved land. Capital, Alpena.
 
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