RONHAND Vineyard honors explorer Henri de Tonti who traveled the St. Joseph River Valley alongside the French explorer LaSalle in the late 1600s. Â During the third Ango-Dutch War, a grenade took off de Tonti's right hand, which he replaced with an iron hook. Â Native Americans were awed by his use of the hook, and referred him as a man of courage and tenacity. Â They called him Iron Hand. Â A 1718 memoir prepared for the French government describes the region as having "the finest vines in the world which produce a vast quantity of very excellent grapes. Â It is the richest district in all the country."Â
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