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French explorers named the location Point Au Grès; grès means "gritty stone" or "sandstone," from which the river and the town take their names. 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.
Charity Island, also known as Big Charity Island, is the largest island in Saginaw Bay, in the Michigan waters of Lake Huron. The island is 222 acres (0.90 km 2) in area and has about 3 miles (4.8 km) of shoreline. It is part of Whitney Township, in Arenac County. The island also contains an 11-acre (0.04 km 2) pond, literally a 'lake within a ...
Michigan's state parks system was started in 1919. Three Michigan state parks pre-date the creation of the park system in 1919: Mackinac Island State Park (1895), Michilimackinac State Park (1909) and Interlochen State Park (1917). Mackinac Island State Park was created in 1895. It had served as the nation's second national park for two decades ...
Three properties sold for $500,000 or more Portage County the week of Feb. 5, including the Country Acres Campground and Fun Park property.
Area code. 989. FIPS code. 26-04140 [1] GNIS feature ID. 1625862 [2] Au Gres Township (/ ˈɔːɡreɪ / AW-gray) is a civil township of Arenac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 896. [3] The city of Au Gres borders the township to the east but both are administered autonomously.
1939. Focal height. 45 feet (14 m) [2] [3] Lens. Fourth-order Fresnel lens [5] Range. 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) Charity Island Light is a lighthouse on Big Charity Island in Lake Huron just off the coast of Au Gres, Northern Michigan.
The Au Sable State Forest is a state forest in the north-central Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It is operated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. [1] The Au Sable State Forest is a byproduct of the lumbering boom in Michigan during the late 19th century. Many parcels of old growth timber were stripped of their largest trees.
A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec and started asking questions. The site is now considered a “strong contender” to be a ...