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The island was named by lake mariners for its location, placed 'through the charity of God' at the entrance to Saginaw Bay midway between the city of Au Gres, Michigan and "The Thumb". The islands were not known as the Charity Islands until after 1845. Maps before 1800 show the islands unnamed.
The Bay Port Historic Commercial Fishing District is centered on a man-made peninsula approximately 600 feet long and 100 to 500 feet wide, extending into Saginaw Bay. When the district was designated in 1977, only seven buildings were still extant in the district. [2] As of 2017, it appears that only three of these are still standing. [4 ...
Pages in category "Saginaw Bay" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... Au Gres River; B. Bay City State Park; C. Capital Airlines Flight 67;
Little Charity Island is a small island in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron. The 5.4-acre (0.02 km 2 ) island is located in Sims Township , Arenac County in the U.S. state of Michigan . Acquired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1999, it is administered by staff from the Seney National Wildlife Refuge as a unit of the Michigan Islands National ...
Bay State: 4 November 1862 Screw propeller, sank in storm. Wreck discovered August 2015. [36] Belle Sheridan: 7 November 1880 A 123-foot (37 m) two-masted schooner. She was carrying coal en route to Toronto when caught in the Gale of 1880 and after fighting for hours, sank in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water in Wellers Bay. Only one of the crew of ...
Saginaw Bay is a bay within Lake Huron located on the eastern side of the U.S. state of Michigan. It forms the space between Michigan's Thumb region and the rest of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Saginaw Bay is 1,143 square miles (2,960 km 2) in area. [2] It is located in parts of five Michigan counties: Arenac, Bay, Huron, Iosco, and Tuscola.
It was first settled in 1862 temporarily by workers on the Saginaw–Au Sable State Road. The first permanent settler was John Edward Bradley, who built the Bradley House in 1866. On August 8, 1867, the location, which was still a part of Bay County, was granted a post office with Bradley as the first postmaster.
The Au Gres River is a river in Michigan. Its mouth is at Lake Huron in the city of Au Gres, Michigan. It flows through Arenac, Iosco and Ogemaw counties. It formerly had an eastern branch, which was severed from the parent river and rerouted along the Whitney Drain to Lake Huron north of Au Gres. The main stream is 46.7 miles (75.2 km) long ...