Ottawa Point (now called Tawas Point) presents a hazard to navigation as it juts out into Lake Huron. It also shelters Tawas Bay, protecting ships from strong north or northeast winds.
In 1850, The Federal government set aside $5000 to build a . . . — — Map (db m123998) HM
This Brass Range Marker surveyors originally used, was
located on the old Iosco County Courthouse in the 1800's. M.C.
Harting's daily path to the Courthouse by his Abstract office took him
by the "stake” for over 50 years. The stake and the . . . — — Map (db m189759) HM
It is respectfully requested that the Board take under consideration the advisability of erecting a set of quarters at this station for the assistant keeper.
Major Thomas Handbury
Corps of Engineers to Light-House Board
. . . — — Map (db m123996) HM
Veterans Memorial This memorial is dedicated to those men and women who serve in time of war and peace and to honor and perpetuate the memory of those who made the surpreme sacrifice for their country. — — Map (db m189758) WM
”Put oil in new Oil House, cleaned same.”
Lightkeeper Samuel Palmer, May 26, 1989
Fuel for the Tawas Point light was originally stored in an oil room in the keeper’s dwelling. During the 1870s the Lighthouse Service changed . . . — — Map (db m123993) HM
The New Light Keepers
The State of Michigan acquired Tawas Point Light from the U.S. Coast Guard in 2002. The light will be managed by the Department of Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation Division, and interpreted by the Department of . . . — — Map (db m123997) HM
The first water wheel power sawmill in Iosco County was owned by
Alva Wood located on Sand Creek in Grant Township. The
waterwheel weighs 1 ˝ ton, developed 35 hp on the belt. Lacking
enough water to successfully power the mill, Mr. Wood moved . . . — — Map (db m189905) HM
The point is a “making point.”
Annual Report, U.S. Lighthouse Board, 1873
Throughout its recorded history, blowing, drifting sand has constantly extended Tawas Point. This lighthouse was built in 1876 because the end of the . . . — — Map (db m123999) HM
In 1850 the U.S. Lighthouse Service commissioned a light station to safely guide ships into Tawas Bay. The first light station was built in 1852 at the end of Tawas Point, then known as Ottawa Point. The prisms of its fifth-order Fresnel lens . . . — — Map (db m124079) HM
The point has steadily made to the southward and westward, and the extremity of it is now more than a mile from the light.
Report of the Light-House Board, 1873
Blowing, shifting sand on the point forced the construction of the . . . — — Map (db m123991) HM
This township cemetery began in 1870 with the purchase of the land from William and Rosina Dommer, by Daniel E. Fries, Herman Dommer, B. F. Chappell, and William M. Webster, officers of Grant Township. Stages on the Tawas-Manistee line passed these . . . — — Map (db m184789) HM
Experience the Tradition
-North America's richest, longest nonstop canoe race.
-Middle Jewel of North America's Triple Crown of Canoe Racing.
-Men and women of all ages paddle 120 miles nonstop through the night to compete for cash and . . . — — Map (db m190040) HM
Cooke Hydroelectric Plant William Augustine Foote, a Jackson entrepreneur, built a series of hydroelectric plants along the Au Sable River with the help of his brother, electrical engineer James Berry Foote. The Footes enlisted the aid of . . . — — Map (db m184796) HM
“Oscoda and AuSable are Wiped Off The Map!” headlined the July 12, 1911, Detroit Free Press. The day before, forest fires, fanned by thirty-mile-per-hour winds, had destroyed these “twin cities” and killed four people. Refugees fled to this . . . — — Map (db m154600) HM
Erected in 1865 A.D. by the pioneer lumberman, Henry Martin Loud, who in that year founded in this area one of the largest lumber operations in Michigan.
The church burned in the fire which destroyed the town of Au Sable and most of the adjoining . . . — — Map (db m123971) HM
Five Channels Dam Workers Camp Consumers Power Company (now Consumers Energy) built Five Channels Dam in 1911 and 1912. It was the second of six hydroelectric plants to be built on the lower Au Sable River by the Foote brothers of Jackson (the . . . — — Map (db m184798) HM
To plant a tree is to perform an act of faith – faith in the future. To plant a whole forest is more than an act of faith – it is a positive building for the future.
The Kiwanis project for the development of some unproductive land in . . . — — Map (db m185059) HM
In 1823 Louis Chevalier, a French-Canadian trader, was granted five hundred arpents (640 acres) of land by the United States government. This land, located on the AuSable River, extends northwesterly in a long, narrow, French ribbon-farm manner. It . . . — — Map (db m184793) HM
This area is named after a variety of gypsum, discovered offshore by Douglass Houghton in 1837. Prospectors soon began searching for other gypsum deposits, and this quarry was opened in 1862 by B. F. Smith. Used at first as fertilizer and as an . . . — — Map (db m120781) HM
Erected 1923 by the citizens
of the county to commemorate
the organization in 1840
of Iosco County
and the establishing in 1856
of the first Post Office in the
county with Gideon O. Whittemore
as Postmaster.
“History . . . — — Map (db m121979) HM
Erected to perpetuate the memory of the pioneer lumbermen of Michigan through whose labors was made possible the development of the prairie states. — — Map (db m33032) HM
This memorial is dedicated to honor those of this community who served in time of war, and to perpetuate the memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice for God and country — — Map (db m184787) WM
