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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 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 ...
Before time zones were introduced, every place used local observation of the sun to set their clocks, which means they used local mean time, every city different based on their longitude. Detroit used 05:32:11 west of Greenwich and Menominee 05:50:27 west of Greenwich. Time zones were introduced in the United States in 1883.
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.
In 1925, the National Gypsum Company opened a quarry nearby, and the name of the post office was changed to National City in 1926. [6] The National City post office, with ZIP code 48748, provides service to a portion of Sherman Township, as well as to another discontinuous area in Grant, Plainfield, Wilber, and Tawas townships to the north. [7]
Iosco County Airport (IATA: ECA, FAA LID: 6D9) is a publicly owned, public use airport located 3 miles northeast of East Tawas, Michigan, United States, in Iosco County.The airport is on 276 acres at an elevation of 605.3 ft (184.5 m).
In 1886, a flag station on the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railroad was established here, bearing the name 'Hale'. [4] A post office opened in the community on January 17, 1889. [5] The railroad line through the community was removed in 1930. [6] The inaugural Iosco County Fair took place in Hale in 1944. [7]