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Alabaster
Alabaster, MI
This area is named after a variety of gypsum, discovered offshore by Douglass Houghton in 1837.
Cooke Hydroelectric Plant
Oscoda, MI
William Augustine Foote, a Jackson entrepreneur, built a series of hydroelectric plants along the Au Sable River with the help of his...
Dock Reserve
Oscoda Township, MI
“Oscoda and AuSable are Wiped Off The Map!
Five Channels Dam Workers Camp
Oscoda, MI
Consumers Power Company (now Consumers Energy) built Five Channels Dam in 1911 and 1912.
Lumbering on the Huron Shore
Tawas City, MI
Lumbermen swarmed into this area during the latter half of the 1800s, attracted by some of the finest pine forests in North America.
Pioneer Cemetery
East Tawas, MI
This township cemetery began in 1870 with the purchase of the land from William and Rosina Dommer, by Daniel E. Fries, Herman Dommer, B....
Tawas Point Light House
East Tawas, MI
In 1850 the U.S. Lighthouse Service commissioned a light station to safely guide ships into Tawas Bay.
The Louis Chevalier Claim
Oscoda, MI
In 1823 Louis Chevalier, a French-Canadian trader, was granted five hundred arpents (640 acres) of land by the United States government.