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Stronach Township is the oldest non-native settlement in Manistee County. [citation needed] In 1840 Joseph Stronach cleared a site to establish a sawmill in the township.In 1841 Joseph Stronach's brother David Stronach and his son Adam Stronach arrived by schooner with machinery and approximately 15 men to begin construction of the sawmill.
Stronach is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Stronach Township, Manistee County, Michigan, United States. Its population was 170 as of the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The community is located at the southeast end of Manistee Lake .
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Manistee County (/ m æ n ɪ s t i / man-iss-TEE) is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,032. [2] The county seat is Manistee. [3]
In Stronach Township, the state of Michigan leased a plot of land and created a 150-car parking lot and temporary access to the lake to accommodate demand. [33] Boat launching sites were still so packed, many anglers had taken to launching canoes and car-top boats from the beach. [21]
The Lake was first identified as Portage Lake in 1837, when Joseph Stronach named the natural stream at Portage Point that flowed into Lake Michigan as Portage Creek. In that same year, the U.S. Government survey identified the lake as "O-nek-a-ma-engk or Portage Lake". The 26th Congress first published this survey information.
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It is bordered to the west by the city of Manistee and to the south by Stronach Township. To the north is the valley of the Manistee River . Highway M-55 crosses the northeast corner of the village, leading east 47 miles (76 km) to Cadillac northwest 1 mile (1.6 km) to U.S. Route 31 in Parkdale , providing road access to the city of Manistee.