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Carp Lake is located on the western shore of Paradise Lake in Emmet County. Paradise Lake provides excellent fishing for walleyes, rock bass, yellow perch, small & large mouth bass, Northern pike, rock bass, and sunfish. Paradise Lake is also popular with boaters. The village was founded by Octave Terrian. Given a station on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad and on January 27, 1880, a post office with Alpheus B. Hendricks as its first postmaster. Named from a kind of fish still abounding in nearby Carp Lake. Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.
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