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Lore and legend says the Village is named for a French-Ottawa Indian woman, Marie LeFevre Bailly. She was the daughter of a French fur trader and was a half-French, half-Ottawa Indian woman. An Indian princess, Marie was renowned as one of the most beautiful women in the northwest (Mackinac Island) area. Her father died when she was eight years old and her mother took her to live with Indian relatives. While young Marie was called “Mah-ree” by the French, the Ottawa had no sound corresponding with the letter “r,” and thus called the little girl “Mah-nee.” French treaty clerks later wrote the name as “Mo-nee.”