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The county is named for Stevens T. Mason, Governor of Michigan from 1835 to 1840. [5] It was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Notipekago County , [ 6 ] then renamed Mason County in 1843.
Location of Mason County in Michigan. The following is a list of Michigan State Historic Sites in Mason County, Michigan. Sites marked with a dagger (†) are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Mason County, Michigan. [1]
Mason County Historical Society, located in Ludington, Michigan, is a private, non-profit, educational organization. It has an outdoor museum dedicated to preserving the local history of Mason County, Michigan .
The Not-A-Pe-Ka-Gon Site or Notipekago Site, also known as the Quick Site, is a multi-component archaeological site located near where South Custer Road crosses the Pere Marquette River in Mason County, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1993 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
Ludington (/ ˈ l ʌ d ɪ ŋ t ən / LUH-ding-tən) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat and the largest city in Mason County. [5] The population was 7,655 at the 2020 census. [3] The city is located at the mouth of the Pere Marquette River at Lake Michigan.
Aaron Burr Caswell (1807–1896) was an American frontiersman and the first white man to occupy any part of Mason County, Michigan.He became the county's first coroner, probate judge and surveyor; and constructed its first framed building that functioned as a home, courthouse and jail—it is also the only surviving landmark of Mason County's earliest history.
Mason is a city and the county seat of Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,252 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] Mason was named after Stevens T. Mason , the state's first governor .
Scottville is in central Mason County, 8 miles (13 km) east of the city of Ludington and Lake Michigan, 3 miles (5 km) west of the village of Custer, and 8 miles (13 km) southwest of the village of Fountain (11 miles (18 km) by road). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.49 square miles (3.86 km 2), all land. [2]