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Tawas City was founded in 1854 as the first city to be located on the shores of Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron north of Bay City, Michigan.Tawas City was designated as the county seat of Iosco County, and the first post office was established Jan. 6, 1856, with James O. Whittemore appointed postmaster.
The Iosco County News-Herald is the newspaper of record for Iosco County, Michigan. Its offices are located at 110 West State Street in East Tawas. [2] The paper publishes weekly on Wednesdays. [3] The paper's sister publication is the Oscoda Press.
Tawas Township is a civil township of Iosco County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,733 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Tawas City is adjacent to the township.
It begins in Tawas City at the junction with US 23. [13] M-65; F-41; River Road National Scenic Byway – starts at M-65 and runs parallel with the Au Sable River for 23 miles (37 km) eastward to US 23 in Oscoda, Michigan. It is a designated National Scenic Byway. [14] It passes the Lumberman's Monument.
The East Tawas post office opened on April 15, 1867. A predecessor of the Detroit and Mackinac Railway built a station here, and the community incorporated as a village in 1887 and later as a city in 1895. Tawas Beach was established nearby in 1903 along the railway line in Baldwin Township. A post office opened here on June 12, 1903, until the ...
WQLB (103.3 FM Tawas City, Michigan) and WKJZ (94.9 FM Hillman, Michigan, serving the Alpena market) are a pair of radio stations known as "HITS FM". The station plays classic hits from the 1970s through the 1990s.
The Alabaster Historic District is a 400-acre mining complex in Iosco County, Michigan, centered on an open pit gypsum mine.It is bounded by on the east by Lake Huron, on the north by Gypsum Road, on the south by Keystone Road, and on the west by Rempert Road, south of Tawas City, the county seat.
As of the census [1] of 2000, there were 1,726 people, 754 households, and 523 families residing in the township. The population density was 60.7 inhabitants per square mile (23.4/km 2).