![]() The movement of the frozen lake ice acting on the shore during the winters is thought to turn over stones at the shore of Lake Michigan, exposing new Petoskey stones at the water's edge each spring. Petoskey stones can be found on various beaches and inland locations in Michigan, with many of the most popular Petoskey stone beaches stretching from Traverse City to Petoskey along Lake Michigan. The settlers named it Petoskey, an anglicized form of Petosegay. ![]() In the summer of 1873, a few years before the chief's death, settlers began to develop a village on his land along Little Traverse Bay. He married another Ottawa, and together they had two daughters and eight sons. He was said to have a striking and appealing appearance, and spoke both French and English very well. Building on his father's start and his place among the Ottawa, Petosegay became a wealthy fur trader who also acquired much land in the region, gaining acclaim for himself and his band. Petosegay, meaning "rising sun", "rays of dawn" or "sunbeams of promise", was named by his father after the rays of sun that fell upon his newborn face. The stones are commonly found on beaches and in sand dunes.Īccording to legend, Petosegay was a descendant of French nobleman and fur trader, Antoine Carre and an Ottawa daughter of a chief. The city of Petoskey, Michigan, is also named after him, and is the center of the area where the stones are found. The stone was named for an Ottawa chief, Chief Pet-O-Sega, son of a French fur trader and Ottawa mother. In 1965, it was named the state stone of Michigan. Other forms of fossilized coral are also found in the same location. It is sometimes made into decorative objects. When dry, the stone resembles ordinary limestone but when wet or polished using lapidary techniques, the distinctive mottled pattern of the six-sided coral fossils emerges. They are fragments of a coral reef that was originally deposited during the Devonian period. Petoskey stones are found in the Gravel Point Formation of the Traverse Group. In those same areas of Michigan, complete fossilized coral colony heads can be found in the source rocks for the Petoskey stones. Such stones were formed as a result of glaciation, in which sheets of ice plucked stones from the bedrock, grinding off their rough edges and depositing them in the northwestern (and some in the northeastern) portion of Michigan's lower peninsula. A Petoskey stone is a rock and a fossil, often pebble-shaped, that is composed of a fossilized rugose coral, Hexagonaria percarinata.
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