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Assinins is an unincorporated community. Assinins was founded in 1843 by the missionary Frederic Baraga, who named it for an Assiniboin chief Baraga had converted and who remained Baraga's devoted friend. In the 1870s, the settlement was known as the "Catholic Mission". The first post office in the area was named "Fewsville", after the Few family. Gershom B. Few operated a distillery and George W. Few became the first postmaster on September 22, 1875. The office closed in 1877. It reopened as "Assinins" on December 6, 1894 with Simon Denomie as the first postmaster and discontinued on May 31, 1914
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