Research Guide To Historical
AuSABLE & OSCODA
MICHIGAN
Use this printed Research Guide of about 75 categories to find some facts &
references of historical events, places & things of AuSable-Oscoda MI. Also,
use the computerized version to search for specific words located in the
description column. These facts & references were taken from about 60
sources (books, CDs, DVDs, magazines, maps, museum exhibits, newspapers,
photos, postcard-collection & videos). The reference codes used in this index
are explained on the last few pages.
Use the Huron Shores Genealogical Society’s Computerized Name Index to
find references to people of AuSable-Oscoda. This Name Index is available at
the Robert J Parks Public Library in Oscoda MI or at the Society’s web site
at www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/iosco/3501hsgs.htm.
Copies of references in this index can be made for you: (1) Flat paper
documents are $4.00 each, postpaid; (2) 3-dimentional references are
photographed for $5.00 each, postpaid; (3) Copies from the postcard
collection are $15.00 for a 5”x7” and $20.00 for a 8”x10.” Add $2.00 each if
you want the copies mailed. See the notebook display of zerox copies of the
postcards in the Museum. Send your order and check to the mailing address
below.
The AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society
Location: 114 E River Road, Oscoda MI
Mail: PO Box 679, Oscoda MI 48750
Phone: 989-739-2782 (Fred Glass)
Web Site: <www.AuSableOscodaHistoricalSociety.org>
E-Mail: AuSableOscodaMuseum@hotmail.com
October 25 2004
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Date
Agriculture
1860-1870s
Agriculture
1860s
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
1860s-1870s
1875-1916
1875-1916
1900s
1900s-1930s
1900s-1930s
1900s-1930s
1900s-1930s
1900s-1930s
1906
1906
Agriculture
1912+
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
1934
1964
xxxx
Agriculture
xxxx
Agriculture
xxxx
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1921
1923
1923
1923
1923-1924
1923-1924
Air Base
Air Base
1923-1924
1923-1924
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1923-1924
1923-1924
1923-1924
1923-1924
1923-1981
2
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Pine Plains farming in Plainfield & Wilber Twps, now a Plains
Ghost Community of abandoned farms, p35-45.
Sylvestor Mahon Vaughan was on of the first homesteads in the
Oscoda area
Plains farming described
James Barlow of AuSable-Oscoda, operated the Riverside farm
James Barlow of AuSable-Oscoda, operated the Riverside farm
Farming, see exhibit in the museum
2 Steam engines from Germany used for a plowing experiment
Carl Schmidt owned over 6,000 acres in Alcona & Iosco counties.
Fictional story of Carl E Schmidt & The Serradella Farm, p1-340
Holstein herd, 60-70 milking cows
Serradella Farm, owned by Carl E Schmidt, p88-89
James Barlow & milk wagon from Riverside Dairy Farm
James Barlow the milkman, carried his milk in his milk wagon in
a big container and dipper, and sold to customer in their own
containers by using a dipper to get the milk from the big can
Five Channels, AuSable River, “Them dam cattle are always
fussin’ roun’ the spillway”, view from E, cattle in foreground
Schmidt died, farm closed, then operated by potato chip company
Homestead Garden, by Marguerite Shellenbarger
AuSable River, Scene At The Stewart Farm, Bradshaw Photo
(Blue Slide #877).
Building being constructed, about 25 men working on roofline,
(Note on back: Post-and-beam construction, location unknown)
(badly damaged)
Cut over pine land is not good for farming, however those with
beech, maple & other hardwoods are good for farming
J Barlow’s Riverside Farm, Oscoda MI- 2 cows & barn
Sow & piglets
Steam engine and farm equipment with men, no caption
The Gateway to a Home. Send for our booklet. (Calls for 1 cent
stamp) Note on back: see booklet and slides on “Gateway to a
Home”
Walter C Reames a Flying Cadet killed
First air shipment (article states 1920 in error, 1923 is correct)
First started
One of the first planes to land at Camp Skeel.
Biplane on ice with spectators
Camp Skeel Oscoda MI- many tents (Baisel /Berry, CES/DEEC
6180)
Camp Skeel- see exhibit in the museum
Camp Skeel, Oscoda, MI, Airplanes along both sides of runway,
close up view
Fly in on ice on VanEtten Lake- see exhibit in the museum
Fuel-serving rigs at Camp Skeel
Tents
View of runway with row of planes very far away
History of Wurtsmith Air Force Base, p16-25
Ref Code
TY2p035
1981Hp319
*
*
*
HAO2p18
1981Hp155
1981Hp224
E#11
1981Hp088
1981Hp088
BHp001
1981Hp088
1981Hp088
TY2p033
HAO2p19
*
PC-18.04
*
1981Hp089
CAHp70
PC-04.14
*
PC-11.02
HAO1p31
*
*
*
*
PC-02.01
SHp21
PC-21.01
PC-21.02
*
*
*
TTRp62
TTRp71
SWp46
PC-01.05
PC-01.07
PC-01.03
*
E#23b
PC-01.06
*
*
*
*
E#23a
1981Hp019
1981Hp0202
PC-01.09
1981Hp016
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Date
1923-1983
1923-1993
1924
Air Base
Air Base
1924
1924c
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1924c
1925
1925
1925+
1930s
1930s
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1930s
1940c
1940c
1940c
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
3
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Good concise one page history of the air base
Artifacts, see exhibit in the museum
Loud-Reames Aviation Field. The towns people cleared the field
for the first planes to land.
Loud-Reames Field- see exhibit in the museum
Aviation Field, Oscoda MI- 7-8 Curtis P-1 biplanes parked on the *
sandy runway of the Oscoda Air Field, c1924.
Oscoda Aviation Field- 6 airplanes & several tents
*
Loud-Reames Aviation Filed renamed as Camp Skeel
Officer’s quarters & mess hall
*
A short description
Air base was very small grass runway
Barling Bomber on frozen surface of VanEtten Lake. In photo are *
Sid Mead, Helen “Dolly” Mead, _____ & Oliver LaVack, Gerald
& Charles Hennigar, Enis C Whitehead, Carl “Skip” Haglund, &
John Grant.
Early bomber
*
Article from the Detroit Press
*
Capt Paul B Wurtsmith in a P-35
*
Hot Air engine wormer to get engines started
*
th
nd
100 Fighter Squadron of 332 Fighter Group
*
30 & 50 caliber machine guns
332nd Fighter Group
*
Aircraft dump for crashed airplanes
Alpena had 2 houses of prostitution & was a favorite place for
base personnel. Also Bay City and Saginaw to a lesser degree.
p43-61
A-T6 Texan Trainer & P-51
Base Chapel
*
Black market food & cigarettes
Black pilots wanted girls in the bigger down state cities
C-47 “Gooney Bird” airplane
Curtis P-40 airplane
D&M spur line to the Air Base
Dance at the Base Gym
*
Everyone Rolls Up Their Sleeves
E-W & N-S runways
Free French flyers & their P-47 Thunderbolts (White & Silver),
they were the most reckless & carefree of all at the base
Green barracks with red roof
Gunnery & bombing ranges
Hutments (16’x16’), quarters 1940s
*
Many planes crashed in the forest and in Lake Huron
P-36s, single wing airplane
P-40, P-47, P-51, P-36. P-38, B-17
Propaganda
Shuttle bus between the Base & Oscoda, 10¢ each way
The main gate
The war comes to the twin towns (AuSable & Oscoda)
Training for ground combat & survival
Ref Code
MOI.2
E#23j
FS
E#23c
PC-01.01
PC-01.02
FS
1981Hp020
CAHp99
WW2p15
PC-01.04
TTRp78
1981Hp021
1981Hp021
1981Hp021
WW2p32
WW2p38
WW2p33
WW2p43
WW2p43
WW2p61
WW2p30
WW2p07
WW2p37
WW2p03
WW2p02
WW2p-0
1981Hp019
WW2p04
WW2p46
WW2p30
WW2p15
WW2p38
1981Hp020
WW2p34
WW2p15
WW2p45
WW2p04
WW2p11
WW2p40
WW2p01
WW2p08
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Date
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1941
1942
1942-1992
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1943
1943
1943
1943
Air Base
1943
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1944
1944
1944
1945-1948
1948
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1948
1948
1948
1948
1950s
1951
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1953
1953
1953-1993
1955
1960
1960-1992
1960-1992
1961
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1975
1977
1979
1979
1980s
1990-1992
1990s
4
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Treasure Island Revisited, base dump large, lots of waste
Two winged airplanes had blue bodies & yellow-orange wings
U.S.O. activities
WW-II Memories, by Deanna Soucie Ruckman
Camp Skeel was renamed Oscoda Army Airfield
Base motor pool
*
One page history of the 379th Bomb Wing with dates & details
(inactive 1945-1955), includes list of all commanders
Free French pilot crashed on Vaughan’s farm
Free French pilots wanted local girls & wine after work
Map of Camp Skeel
*
Negro fighter squadron trained in P-40s, excellent flyers but had
trouble landing
Oscoda Army AF, Black & Free French pilots- see exhibit in the
museum
Base Chapel
*
Control Tower
*
Post Exchange
*
Inactive, see exhibit in the museum (exhibit being revised)
Fighter Squadron Movie filmed on base, see exhibit in the
museum
Filming Fighter Squadron
Map of Oscoda Army Air Field
*
Movie Fighter Squadron
*
Part of the Fighter Squadron cast & airplane
*
Pursuit plane
*
Map Wurtsmith AFB, bombing & gunnery range 12 mi NW of
*
base
Wurtsmith - The Earl Years, by Mary Jane Hennigar
Wurtsmith AFB, named after Maj Gen Paul Bernard Wurtsmith
*
Wurtsmith AFB, see exhibit in the museum
WAFB Theatre
*
Wurtsmith AFB becomes a Strategic Air Command (SAC) base
534th Bombardment Squadron
*
th
930 Air Refueling Squadron
*
B52H bomber (tail number 0001) was produced in Kansas &
christened “The State of MI” The B52 had a 180’ wingspan; stood
40’ tall; and was powered by 8 turbojet engines.
Base Headquarters
*
B52H bombers were replace by the B52G models
Airmen’s Dinning Hall
*
Base Chapel
*
Base Water Tower with smile face
*
Operations Desert Storm
*
Wing Headquarters
*
Ref Code
WW2p07
WW2p16
WW2p18
TTRp79
FS
1981Hp023
MOI.2
WW2p22
WW2p37
1981Hp021
WW2p10
E#23d
1981Hp024
1981Hp020
1981Hp023
E#23e
E#23f
WW2p63
1981Hp022
WW2p26
1981Hp023
TTRp78
1981Hp022
TTRp64
1981Hp018
E#23g
1981Hp023
FS
MIO.2
MIO.2
FS
1981Hp023
FS
1981Hp025
1981Hp023
1981Hp024
MOI.5
1981Hp025
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Air Base
Date
1991
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1991
1991
1993
1993
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1993
1993
1993
Air Base
Air Base
Air Base
1993
xxxx
xxxx
Air Base
xxxx
Air Base
Air Base
Animals
Animals
xxxx
xxxx
1866
1868
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
1884-1885
1884-1885
1888
1888
1900s-1930s
1911
1911+
1914
1923
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
1930s
1936-1954
1938
1940s
xxxx
xxxx
Animals
Animals
Animals
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Artifacts
Artifacts
Artifacts
1900-1930s
1900-1930s
1900-1940s
5
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
th
Desert Storm. The 379 Bomb Wing at WAFB launched twelve
B52s on a longest nonstop bomber run at that time They were
refueled in flight three times. WAFB also deployed 725 personnel
and 400 tons of equipment. WAFB B52s totaled 25% of all
bombs dropped and the largest non-nuclear explosion on a
weapons factory
Wurtsmith AFB, B52 Global Route see exhibit in the museum
Wurtsmith AFB, Desert Storm, see exhibit in the museum
Inactivation, 379th Bomb Wing
Wurtsmith AFB closed and the B52s made last flight to the scrap
yard
Wurtsmith AFB, closed, see exhibit in the museum
Wurtsmith AFB, last B52 bomber, see exhibit in the museum
Wurtsmith AFB, State of MI Certificates, see exhibit in the
museum
Wurtsmith Community College of the Air Force, graduation
*
B-52 Stratofortress in flight, (Blue Slide #828)
*
H13 Bell Helicopter, WAFB Oscoda MI & 7 jet fighters parked
*
along taxiway
Selfridge Field #3, Oscoda, MI, Several Curtis Hawks- (Baisel
*
Berry VES/DEEC 6180)
WAFB front gate, (Blueside #857)
*
Wurtsmith AFB, Home Coming, see exhibit in the museum
Wolves, five were killed by poison at Wilber’s Camp.
Our worst and most troublesome enemies are mosquitoes, and the
most dangerous are rattlesnakes
Lynx & wildcat
Wolves
Black Bear
Rattlesnakes
Bison, Elk & Peacock
*
Built a fire on the bank, could see eyes of deer & coon etc
After the fire there were many large snakes
Bears killed sheep
Malcom McLeod lost a valuable young cow the past week, the
animal being attacked and killed by a pig. (THN-03/17/1923)
Picket fences kept animals out of peoples yards
Bounty for Rats
William H Ellis & dog
*
Rattle snakes & yellow jackets in the woods
2 dogs beside the Pack House.
*
3 men and a dog in front of primitive tent, (Notes on back: Alec
*
Ellis, Uncle Jack Hennigar, see Alex & Jack in canoe)
Fawn. Stevens. 1 cent postage, post mark unclear.
*
Oscoda, MI, The Hunter and his dog, (color)
*
Surprised at Home Near AuSable River MI, deer in woods, 1 cent *
postage, post mark unclear
See exhibit in the museum, various items
See exhibit in the museum, various items
See exhibit in the museum, various items
Ref Code
FS
E#23l
E#23h
MOI.2
FS
E#23i
E#23o
E#23n
MIO.6
PC-01.11
PC-01.12
PC-01.08
PC-01.10
E#23m
JOWJp05
1883Hp161
P&Hp021
P&Hp020
P&Hp062
P&Hp056
1981Hp088
P&Hp127
LSAFp046
G1997/01p3
THN
1981Hp099
TTRp90
P&Hp005
WW2p38
PC-02.05
PC-27.05
PC-02.04
PC-27.09
PC-02.03
E#18
E#19
E#20
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Artifacts
Artifacts
Arts-Crafts
Arts-Crafts
Bands
Bands
Bands
Bands
Date
1930s
xxxx
1900s
xxxx
1915
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Berries
Berries
Berries
Berries
Berries
Berries
1857
1879
1888
1900s
1911
1911
Berries
Berries
Berries
Berries
Berries
Berries
Birds
1911
1930s
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Xxxx
1880
Birds
Birds
Birds
Birds
Birds
1882
1884-1885
1901
1906
1909
Birds
Birds
1911
1915
Bridges
Bridges
1869-1881
1879
Bridges
1879
Bridges
Bridges
Bridges
1884c
1912
1912
6
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
See exhibit in the museum, various items
Settler’s Artifacts, see exhibit in the museum, various items
Folk Art, see exhibit in the museum, various items
MI In Painting, see exhibit in the museum (10 of 28 photos)
*
Bands, Iosco Co Band, Oscoda MI, homecoming 1915
*
Band Stand, Oscoda, MI,D-748, (2 copies)
*
Bands, Iosco Co Band, Oscoda MI
*
Iosco Band, AuSable and Oscoda, 14 band members, calls for 1
*
cent stamp, (Note on back:: Johnny & Alec Ellis, John & Alex
Haglund)
Whortleberry expedition
Whortleberry expeditions
Black raspberries
Huckleberries, story by Mary Jane Hennigar
Huckleberry Canning factory
Mrs E R McNichol & her brother A B Chrysler bought the Hull &
Ely mill to begin the Oscoda & AuSable Canning Company- a
huckleberry factory. Destroyed in the Fire. p46-48
Oscoda-AuSable Canning Co, label
*
Picking huckleberries
Blackberries
Pack, Woods & Co brought men from Sanilac Co to pick berries
Wild blue berries, called huckleberries
Wild strawberries
The last flock of Passenger Pigeons to fly over Iosco County was
on April 4 1880, and people in East Tawas turned out to kill them.
The last known passenger pigeon to die in captivity was in the
Cincinnati Zoological Garden. It was hatched from a flock in
Michigan in 1879, and died in1908 at the age of 29 years.
Fred Tremaine killed a crane with nearly 7’ wingspan.
Red headed woodpeckers
Bounty for Sparrows
Pet crow returned from the sunny south one week early this year
Photo of Partridge, AuSable MI, 1909, Bradshaw photo, 1 cent
*
postage, postmarked 1909.
Italians reportedly put robins in their stew
A Scene Near Oscoda MI, geese on sandbar in river, 1 cent
*
postage, postmarked 1915, Affelt photo
Bridge built 1869 & rebuilt 1881
AuSable barrowed $6,000 & built a bridge across the AuSable
River to Oscoda {The Mill Street Bridge?)
Bridge between AuSable & Oscoda was authorized & built,
$6,000.
Birdseye view of Oscoda (looking N from Mill St Bridge)
*
AuSable River Bridge, Oscoda, MI, road to bridge over River Rd
*
Steel Bridge, Oscoda & AuSable, MI, Stevens Photo, 13 men on
*
bridge, Postmarked Oct 25, 1912, (Note on front: Mr Thom Lee,
Mr. Wm. Dickinson. Note on back: Tommy Lee, O’Meara).
(Notes on back: Depot Bridge. Mill Street. Mill Street bridge
looking toward the Lake), (2 copies)
Ref Code
E#24
E#06
E#26
E#07
PC-06.03
PC-16.10
PC-06.02
PC-06.01
TTRp03
1883Hp167
P&Hp062
TTRp82
TTRp84
HAO1p46
SHp57
1981Hp100
P&Hp108
HAO1p44
P&Hp105
1981Hp202
EPPp06
SHp30
P&Hp020
TTRp90
G2004/03p5
PC-02.02
P&Hp122
PC-04.13
1883Hp174
HAO2p18
1883Hp169
NSp15
PC-10.11
PC-10.03
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Bridges
Date
1912
Bridges
1913
Bridges
Bridges
Bridges
1921
1930s
xxxx
Bridges
Bridges
xxxx
xxxx
Bridges
xxxx
Bridges
xxxx
Bridges
xxxx
Bridges
xxxx
Businesses
Businesses
1860+
1873
Businesses
Businesses
1873
1873
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
1877
1880
1880
1884
1884
1886
Businesses
1886-1887
Businesses
Businesses
1888
1890
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
1890s
1890s
1896
1900s
1902-1950s
7
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
The New Steel Bridge, Oscoda, MI, Stevens Photo, (probably
*
River Road Bridge), (Note on back: On site of Oscoda Boom
Company’s wooden bridge)
Boom Co Bridge Swept Out by High Water, Oscoda, MI, Mar 20, *
1913, Stevens photo, (Note on back: River Road Bridge)
AuSable River Bridge, Oscoda, MI, postmarked Aug 10, 1921
*
U.S. Highway 23, Oscoda, MI, #36911, 1930’s auto
*
Bridge, man sitting foreground, horse and wagon on bridge,
*
(appears to be the Boom Company, River Road Bridge.)
New Bridge, U.S. 23, Oscoda, MI, (probably US-23 St Bridge)
*
On the way to the Depot, Affelt photo #11, (Boom Co, River
*
Road Bridge)
The old Bridge and Dam near Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda,
*
MI,
The Old Bridge and Dam near Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda,
*
MI, Cherebon or Cherelon Photo, old plank bridge, (2 copies)
Van Etten Creek Bridge, (Note on back: Known as Posen’s
*
Bridge, this was my mother’s [Marvel Stickney] post card. She
painted several copies of this (water color, oil) one on denim.
Mary Jane Hennigar.)
Van Etten Creek Bridge, Oscoda, MI, (Note on back: Posen’s
*
Bridge)
Felix O’Toole was “king de facto” of AuSable
6 sawmills with 2 more being erected; 29 dry goods & general
stores; 6 hotels; 3 schoolhouses; 2 churches, blacksmith shops; 5
doctors: & 3 lawyers.
Oscoda Foundry & Machine Shops founded
The Oscoda Foundry & Machine Shop was established by
Chancey Crippen & Fred Schofield
The Ferris Planing Mill built
Grippen’s Foundry & Machine Shop, map item #20
*
Grippen’s Foundry & Machine Shop, map item #20
*
First licensed saloon in Oscoda
Norvelle N Young opened a grocery store in Oscoda, p324-325
Main St, Oscoda, MI, 1886, Bradshaw photo, view S on Main St
*
from Dwight St, shows King’s Opera house, etc. (calls for 1 cent
stamp),
In Oscoda there were 8 Saloons open day & night & maybe 3,000
people from all over the world
Norvelle N Young opened a livery stable in Oscoda
Main Street, AuSable MI, Black slide 76, man in white coat in
*
front of 1st store, road curves to left, (Note on front: 1890)
Ray Colbath peddled apples & farm produce in a dory
Undertaker, Louis Gagnier
Grocery Prices Lake Side Monitor February 13 1896
Old buildings, see exhibit in the museum
Fred Newell Stevens, local photographer, at age 44 he married a
lady from IL [reportedly a mail order bride], p303--304
Ref Code
PC-10.01
PC-10.05
PC-10.08
PC-10.02
PC-10.06
PC-10.04
PC-10.07
PC-47.12
PC-10.09
PC-47.07
PC-10.10
TY2p013
1883Hp162
1883Hp179
HAO2p14
1883Hp179
1880m
1880mc
TY2p050
1981Hp324
PC-43.05
P&Hp026
1981Hp324
PC-42.02
1981Hp178
1981Hp199
LBp047
E#15
1981Hp303
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Businesses
Date
1906
Businesses
1906
Businesses
Businesses
1908
1908
Businesses
1908-1909
Businesses
1910
Businesses
1910+
Businesses
1910s
Businesses
1911
Businesses
Businesses
1911
1911
Businesses
1911+
Businesses
1911+
Businesses
Businesses
1911+
1911+
Businesses
1911+
Businesses
1912
Businesses
1920-1940s
8
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
AuSable, MI (Note on front: personal message), postmarked Jun
*
2, 1906, shows hardware foreground, Loud office, circus poster
on building, mill smokestack, looking N on Harbor St, , Bradshaw
photo, postmarked Jun 1, 1906
AuSable, MI (same as 42.01, card damaged, upper left corner left
*
blank), (Note on back: Looking N from Harbor St to Mill St,
Library, Timber Mill, Loud Co office, telephone office and
Richard’s Hardware store showing.)
Frederick C Weston, a tin smith, opened his hardware in Oscoda
View of Main Street, AuSable, MI, Bradshaw photo, (Note on
*
front: The team of horses standing in front of Fred’s shop. We
live where x is. The river is just across the street. Letter is from
S.G. & W. Johnson), postmarked Nov 24, 1908, shows Loud
office extreme left, looking S on Harbor St
Main St., Oscoda, MI, view N on Main St from Division, Shows
*
Bank, Baptist Church, etc., including buildings on W side of
street, (picture framed with wood-grain design), postmarked 1908
or 1909, (2 copies)
Main St., Oscoda, MI, Bradshaw photo, horse & buggy in middle *
of street, shows bank, Baptist Church, Elliott House, etc., view N
on Main St from Division, (white upper left corner left blank), (5
copies, postmarks Sep 24, 1906, Nov 13, 1906, Nov 6, 1907, Oct
10, 1910) , Black slide 78
Mrs Henrietts Thorton, had grocery store in her front room on the *
old Route US-23 in AuSable
Main St., Oscoda, MI, horse & buggy cut off at bottom, view N
*
on Main St from Division, shows bank, Baptist church, Elliott
House, etc, Black slide 78, (2 copies)
Oscoda Turpentine Co established, was to make turpentine from
pine stumps. It was not saleable because of the red color. Also
tried to make tar & sheep dip. Company failed in a year.
Oscoda, main street prior to fire
*
Turpentine Plant, Oscoda, MI, railroad tracks, (Note on back
*
says: “when they get to running good, they will turn out twenty
eight hundred gallons a week.”)
2 storefronts & several people, Main Street, Oscoda, MI after fire. *
Oscoda Hardware Co. & Mores Marks Dry Goods & Clothing.
(Note on front: Harlon? Hennigar, Dad, Warren Hennigar)
Main Street, Oscoda after fire, (Note on back: l to r: Stevens
*
Photo, Al’s Meat Market, Mores Marks, V.E. Rix)
Main Street, Oscoda, MI, Stevens photo, dirt road, new buildings
*
Oscoda Garage on fire, men standing around, (black slide #80) (2 *
copies)
The Geo. D. McNichol & Co. Bank, Oscoda, MI, new building,
*
horse & wagon, fire-barren landscape, (blue slide #885)
Store, horse & wagon, with man in butcher’s apron & children on *
store steps, postmarked Aug 14, 1912
Main St., Oscoda, MI, #C-854, looking N from Dwight St, 1930s
*
or 40s, (Note on back: Alpena Candy & Cigar truck in front of
McCuaig store)
Ref Code
PC-42.01
PC-42.03
1981Hp324
PC-42.04
PC-43.01
PC-43.02
1981Hp312
PC-43.03
HAO1p48
TY2p083
PC-11.01
PC-11.11
PC-11.10
PC-44.01
PC-11.08
PC-11.09
PC-43.06
PC-44.13
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Businesses
Date
1925
Businesses
1925
Businesses
1925
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
1926
1926
1926
Businesses
Businesses
1926
1930
Businesses
Businesses
1930s
1930s
Businesses
1930s
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
1930s
1930s
1930s
1930s
1930s
1930s
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
1935
1935+
1940s
1940s
Businesses
1940s
Businesses
1950s
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
1950s
1950s
1952-1977
1960s
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
9
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Oscoda Garage, 1925, 2 Men & car in side yard, old high school
*
rear right, rainwater in street, (2 copies)
Oscoda Garage, 2 old autos, also canoe on main street in
*
foreground, (Note on front: 1925 in Oscoda. The first garage,
built in 1913, after 1911 fire. Born on this lot Dec 6, 1876) (also
see 11.05, 11.06)
Oscoda Garage, 2 old autos, also canoe on main street in
*
foreground, (Note on front: Where M-10 pavement was laid 12”
too low. 1925) (also see 11.04, 11.06) (2 copies)
Fred Stevens studio
*
John Soucie’s lunch counter
*
Main St, Oscoda, MI, looking N from River Rd, shows Stevens
*
phtog, Soucie lunch counter, Oddfellows bldg., (Note on back: 321-1926)
Shore Laundry - Oddfellows Hall
Oscoda, MI, Main St looking N from Sinclair Station (Sie & Gerts *
[Hofacer])
Erick Knuth & Co Hardware
Main St, Oscoda, MI 1930s, looking S on Main St from Rexall
*
Drugs,
Main St, Oscoda, MI, #D-168, W side of street, looking S from
*
Dwight St,
Main street of Oscoda
*
Oscoda, MI, #36918, Main St looking N from A&P on Dwight St *
Oscoda, MI, Main St looking N from A&P on Dwight St.
*
Oscoda, MI, Main St, looking N from Oscoda Inn
*
Oscoda, MI, Main St, looking NW from Sinclair Station,
*
State St, Oscoda, MI, (Main St), (Note on back: Main St in early
*
1930s, Auditorium on right, Sid Mead’s pool room left corner)
Tony Decker’s Bar, by Thom Grant
Tony Decker’s bar in Oscoda
Main St, Oscoda, MI, 1930s or 40s, looking N from Dwight St
*
Main St, Oscoda, MI, looking S from Oscoda Garage at River Rd, *
Black slide 84
Oscoda, MI, #S-1777, Main St looking N from Rexall Drugs,
*
1940s?
Oscoda Garage, Oscoda, MI, mid-1900’s, man & 2 red-crown
*
Standard pumps, old high school in rear, (Note on back: Percy
Duchane on left).
The Penny Scale
Wurtsmith AFB, Hill Top Bar, see exhibit in the museum
Funeral Home, Dwight Edward Gilbert
Main St, Oscoda, MI, looking N from Welcome Hotel, (c1960,
*
color photo)
Art Stable
*
AuSable Inn
*
Fellows Marina, water tower in background
*
Kaul Glove Co
*
Medical Center
*
Oscoda State Savings Bank
*
Ref Code
PC-11.07
PC-11.04
PC-11.05
TTRp46
TTRp45
PC-44.23
TTRp45
PC-44.16
1981Hp228
PC-44.09
PC-44.15
TTRcover
PC-44.21
PC-44.22
PC-44.14
PC-44.11
PC-44.19
CAHp97
1981Hp180
PC-44.10
PC-44.12
PC-44.02
PC-11.12
LBp108
E#23p
1981Hp199
PC-44.24
BWP.13
BWP.01
BWP.04
BWP.03
BWP.05
BWP.12
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Date
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
1977-1004
xxxx
Businesses
xxxx
Businesses
xxxx
Businesses
Businesses
xxxx
xxxx
Businesses
xxxx
Businesses
xxxx
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
Businesses
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Businesses
Canoe
Canoes
Canoes
Canoes
xxxx
1947+
1942-1997
1947
1947
Canoes
Canoes
1947
1947+
Canoes
Canoes
Canoes
1947-2004
1965
xxxx
Celebrations
Celebrations
1897
1897
Celebrations
1906
10
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Pack House & Toby Jug Bar
*
Sawyer Canoe Co
*
Funeral Home, E G Buresch
Adams Ave (River Rd), Oscoda, MI, looking E toward lake, (2
*
copies)
Gilbert Drug Store, Oscoda, MI, “Your vacation store”, Pla-Mor *
Center and Gilbert’s Rexall Drugs, at night, (color)
Interior of a store, (Note on front: in Dad’s store before the fire),
*
(Note on back: Became Knuth Hardware)
Loud’s Co Store in Comins, George Imlay & wife
*
Main St, Oscoda, MI, looking S from Belyn shop near River Rd.,
*
(color photo)
Oscoda Garage, 2 old autos, also canoe on main street in
*
foreground. (no notes on card) (also see 11.04, 11.05
Oscoda, MI, Dwight St at Superior, looking E, tree in middle of
*
road
Other Developments During The Lumbering Period, p32-50
People sitting on board sidewalk in Oscoda
*
Rogers clothing & shoe store
*
Sie & Gert’s [Hofacer] Gas, Oil & Eats
*
Tony Decker Lake View Tavern,
*
View on Church St from the Loud’s Store, AuSable, MI, Bradshaw *
photo, [probably looking S on First St], Blue slide 904, (2 copies)
(Note on back: Dan McQuaig & his wife standing together. Frank
Barthiume [sp?] in the window.
Waburn Resort
*
Folder, Canoe Marathon, 25 photos
*
Book, AuSable River Canoe Marathon, 50 year history
*
Canoe race finish line, Gene LaVack & Hughie Bissonette
*
First canoe race, Hugh Bissonette & Gene LaVack of Oscoda take
5th
The first canoe race
The History of the AuSable River Marathon Canoe Race, p111112
AuSable River Canoe Marathon, see exhibit in the museum
The History of the Canoe Monument
*
Two Marathon Canoe Racers passing the Island at Five Channels *
Dam in the AuSable River, in Huron National Forest, MI c1957
Farewell Gathering of the Boom Boys, menu & guest List
*
Farwell Gathering of the Boom Boys of the Oscoda Boom Co at
*
the Elliott House, Friday September 24th 1897
Allen Mather & his Iosco Band (14 musicians) played at the
*
Wigwam for the Home-Coming.
Ref Code
BWP.14
BWP.02
1981Hp200
PC-44.20
PC-11.13
PC-11.03
P&Hp098
PC-44.25
PC-11.06
PC-44.18
HAO1p32
SHp66
MOI.3
SHp16
SHp13
PC-42.06
MOI.4
CM
ARCM
ARQp05
LBp104
LBp103
1981Hp111
E#21
1981Hp112
PC-05.17
P&Hp136
P&Hp135
1981Hp252
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Celebrations
Date
1906
Celebrations
1906
Celebrations
1906
Celebrations
1906
Celebrations
Celebrations
1915
1915
Celebrations
1915
Celebrations
1915
Celebrations
1915
Celebrations
1918
Celebrations
1918
Celebrations
Celebrations
1918
1918
Celebrations
Celebrations
Celebrations
1918
1918
1918
Celebrations
Celebrations
1918
1918
Celebrations
1921
Celebrations
1921±
11
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Home Coming Transfer, Co, AuSable, MI, Aug 1, 1906,
*
“Bradshaw’s special photo,” Group of men with donkey & cart,
various humorous words on front, Blue slide 902, (3 copies,
different notes on back), (Notes on back: Sup’t? tied to wagon at
dock and paraded through town. Left to right: [names not clear]
Cousin? ?, Harvey Cleveland, Joe Eaton, Russell ?, John
McFarlane, Vern Peltier, Hennigar, Scott? McCormick?, Jim
Hull, ??, Pete McPhail, Harry Soloman. Jim Dickinson, Geo
Fraleigh?, Frank Mulholland, Charlie Furtaw. also listed: Sam
Young)
Scene at the Home Coming, Soldiers carrying off the dead during *
the Sham Battle, AuSable, Aug 1, 1906, Bradshaw photo
Scene during Home Coming, AuSable & Oscoda, MI, 1906,
*
Bradshaw photo, band parading down street, horse & buggy
foreground, buildings & tents, (2 copies), (also see Street Scenes,
post fire, postcard file 44)
Scene during Sham Battle at Home Coming, AuSable, MI, 1906,
*
Bradshaw photo, large crowd, in front of Methodist church,
Penoyar house, roofs of Loud homes in AuSable, (Note on back
incorrectly claims it is Piety Hill)
Bands, Iosco Co Band, Oscoda MI, homecoming 1915
*
Main St, Oscoda, MI, July 5, 1915, large crowd in street, probably *
a Home Coming event
Main St., Oscoda, MI, July4, 1915, early autos on street, groups of *
people, Black slide 79, (4 copies)
The Arrival of the Home Comers, Oscoda & AuSable, July 4
*
1915, No.1, crowd at dock with D&C steamboat, (2 copies)
The Arrival of the Home Comers, Oscoda and AuSable, July 4,
*
1915, Crowd of passengers around D&C steamship at dock
Oscoda, MI, July 4, 1918, #12, autos, horses, parade on Main St., *
probably Home Coming parade, (see Home Coming, post cards
26), (card damaged & taped)
Oscoda, MI, July 4, 1918, #3, parade on Main St, Uncle Sam in
*
front, Black slide 252
Oscoda, MI, July 4, 1918, #8, crowd, early autos, dog,
*
Oscoda, MI, July 4, 1918, No 10, auditorium from NE, shows
*
parade, horses & wagons, (black slide 254)
Oscoda, MI, July 4, 1918, No 4, flags and crowd out front
*
Oscoda, MI, July 4, 1918, No 5, flags, crowd & auto out front
*
Oscoda, MI, July 4, 1918, No 6, auditorium from NE, shows
*
parade, autos, horses, crowd, horse has sign on neck: Best Moter
in Town,
Parade July 4th
Uncle Sam at Oscoda, MI, July 4, 1918, Uncle Sam shaking
*
man’s hand, Black slide 257, (2 copies), (Note on back: Big Dick
?unelson? & Bill Richardson)
Main St., Oscoda, MI, band in middle of Main St., (see Home
*
Coming: postcard photos 26), postmarked July 13, 1921, (2
copies, 1 taped)
A Prize Race by the Girls, July 4, Oscoda, MI, Stevens photo,
*
Ref Code
PC-26.01
PC-26.06
PC-26.04
PC-26.05
PC-06.03
PC-44.03
PC-44.04
PC-26.03
PC-26.08
PC-44.08
PC-44.06
PC-44.05
PC-16.09
PC-16.06
PC-16.07
PC-16.08
TTRp81
PC-26.02
PC-44.07
PC-26.07
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Date
Celebrations
Celebrations
Cemeteries
1935
1940s
1860s-1890s
Cemeteries
1863-1883
Cemeteries
Cemeteries
Cemeteries
1867-1928
1868
1868-1990
Cemeteries
Cemeteries
Clothing
Clothing
1900s
xxxx
1800s
1906
Clothing
1906
Clothing
1910
Clothing
1930s
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
12
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
girls racing down Main street, crowd of spectators, (Note on back:
Sam Gardner’s shop at right, V.E. Rix store and Mores Marks’
store showing on left. A reunion celebrated about 10 years after
the fire.)
Home-Coming of Oscoda & AuSable A Poem
War is over, dancing in the streets
Napolean LaVoie cared wooden grave markers for local people
and for sale though Sears-Roebuck
A cemetery across from the Oscoda Indian Mission includes 8
persons buried between 1863-1883.
AuSable Township in AuSable, see names listed in the reference
John Smith was drowned, buried on the point near the monument
Sacred Hearth Catholic in Oscoda, see names listed in the
reference
Indian burying grounds
Indian Island with Indian cemetery is now under 20 feet of water
Women’s clothing, see exhibit in the museum
Home Coming Transfer, Co, AuSable, MI, Aug 1, 1906,
*
“Bradshaw’s special photo,” Group of men with donkey & cart,
various humorous words on front, Blue slide 902, (3 copies,
different notes on back), (Notes on back: Sup’t? tied to wagon at
dock and paraded through town. Left to right: [names not clear]
Cousin? ?, Harvey Cleveland, Joe Eaton, Russell ?, John
McFarlane, Vern Peltier, Hennigar, Scott? McCormick?, Jim
Hull, ??, Pete McPhail, Harry Soloman. Jim Dickinson, Geo
Fraleigh?, Frank Mulholland, Charlie Furtaw. also listed: Sam
Young)
Scene during Home Coming, AuSable & Oscoda, MI, 1906,
*
Bradshaw photo, band parading down street, horse & buggy
foreground, buildings & tents, (2 copies), (also see Street Scenes,
post fire, postcard file 44)
Large family reunion at picnic table, (Note on back: Barlow
*
Reunion, 4th July 1910)
We dressed warm for school: Fleeced underwear, wool or shakerflannel petticoats, and heavy dresses. 99-100
2 men & a woman under trees, (Note on back: This is a picture of *
Harold Willis Densmore and Grandma Vaughan. Taken in
Vaughan’s orchard), (2 copies)
2 Men in suits holding fish on pole, (Note on back: Caught in
*
Booker? Lake)
2 young men, (studio photo), (Note on front: Dan Martin on
*
right),
3 boys & 3 girls, (Note on back: Jerry Marks left, Eddie Close
*
center, Geo B “Brownie” Ellis on right)
3 mature women, (oval picture), (Note on back: The old lady
*
boards her and her daughter was visiting her)
3 men in front of Model A or T with dead deer and guns, Black
*
slide 546
3 women, girl & 2 dogs, porch steps, (very dark photo), (Note on *
back: G. Grandma Ellis, hands on hips, Mrs Furtaw in white
Ref Code
CAHp26
WW2p63
1981Hp238
IMM#2
CEM
1981Hp108
CEM
TY2p002
P&Hp108
E#22
PC-26.01
PC-26.04
PC-39.05
1981Hp099
PC-37.12
PC-25.08
PC-37.09
PC-37.01
PC-37.23
PC-27.07
PC-37.06
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Date
Clothing
Clothing
xxxx
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
Clothing
Clothing
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
Clothing
Clothing
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
Clothing
xxxx
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Clothing
Clothing
xxxx
xxxx
Clothing
Clothing
xxxx
xxxx
Clothing
xxxx
Dams
1905+
Dams
Dams
1905+
1905+
Dams
1905+
Dams
1910
13
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
apron?
3 young men in shirts & ties, (oval design),
*
5 men standing in hunting camp, very primitive tent, etc. (Note on *
back: middle man-Masterson?, third man-Al Christeson
Group of 7 fishermen holding up a large sturgeon, (Note on back
*
says Guy Shellenbarger on left)
Group of people in woods, (Note on back: Swedish picnic at Van *
Etten)
Just a few of the Best of Us, bunch of men standing outdoors,
*
(Note on back: 1 Julian Marks, 2 Fred Yockey, 3 Warren
Hennigar, 4 Earl Yockey, 5 Louis Berry, 6 Harold Rix, 7 Lloyd
Blakeley, 8 Hartzel Aherns, 9 Frank Turcotte, 10 Lloyd
Densmore, 11 Frank Langlois), Black slide 562
Long Lake, MI, 2 men’s hands holding string of fish
*
Man & 3 women, (studio photo),
*
Man & woman in garden, (man unrecognizable), (Note on back:
*
Pack yard? Grace Pack?)
The Old Town Pump, Oscoda, MI, #36920, 4 children at pump,
*
Black slide 178
Two AuSable River Hogs, Old Town Pump & 2 old men, (Note
*
on back: Myron Vaughan, Billy Ellis)
Woman & dog by garden, (Note on back: Pack)
*
Woman & dog in snow, (Note on back: Grant Girl w/dog)
*
Woman in big hat beside house, (Note on back: Pack House?
*
Grace Pack)
Woman in hat and long coat in yard, (Note on back: This looks
*
like Eleanor (McCluskey) Vaughan)
Woman in long black dress, (studio photo)
*
Woman in long skirt on horse, (Note on back: Elsie (Bissonette)
*
McCluskey?), (calls for 1 cent stamp, postmark unreadable), (2
copies)
Women & children standing behind railroad car, (Note on back:
*
2nd row: 2nd lady, Martha Ellis (my grandmother); top row: 4th
lady (Dark dress Mrs Elliott)
Young boy in Little Lord Faulteroy outfit, (studio photo)
*
Young man & dog in front of porch, (Note on back: Harold
*
Trigger at Pack House)
Young man out in yard, (Note on back: Harold P Trigger)
*
Young woman in big hat & ankle-length dress in front of
*
building, (half of card is missing)
Young woman, (studio photo), (Note on back: Mabel M Grant,
*
June 1914)
E F Loud first considered the possibility of dams and he bought
some suitable property for the dams.
Electricity Story by Mary Jane Hennigar
How The Power Development Came To Oscoda And AuSable, by
Edward F Loud, p113-119
Hydro-Electric Power on the AuSable River, A story by Edward F
Loud
AuSable River & Dams, see exhibit in the museum
Ref Code
PC-37.07
PC-27.01
PC-24.04
PC-39.08
PC-39.04
PC-25.05
PC-37.08
PC-37.15
PC-37.13
PC-37.14
PC-37.27
PC-37.16
PC-37.18
PC-37.21
PC-37.17
PC-37.10
PC-39.02
PC-37.24
PC-37.20
PC-37.19
PC-37.03
PC-37.11
HAO1p51
TTRp99
1981Hp113
CAHp80
E#12
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Dams
Dams
Dams
Date
1911
1911
1911
Dams
Dams
1911
1911
Dams
Dams
Dams
1911
1911
1911
Dams
Dams
Dams
Dams
Dams
Dams
Dams
Dams
Dams
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911+
1911+
1911+
1911-1924
Dams
Dams
1911-1924
1911-1924
Dams
1911-1924
Dams
Dams
1911-1924
1911-1924
Dams
Dams
1912
1912+
Dams
Dams
Dams
Dams
1913
1913
1915
1915
Dams
Dams
Dams
1918
1918+
1922
Dams
Dams
Dams
1924
1924+
xxxx
Dams
Dams
xxxx
xxxx
14
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
200 men worked with stones day & night on Cooke Dam
Both Loud Co wanigans pulled in upriver
*
Building the Dam, AuSable River, Bradshaw photo, Cooke Dam,
*
lady in foreground
Cooke Dam as completed in the early nineteen hundreds
*
Cooke Dam backed water up 8 miles, wall with 40 foot head of
water, turbines developed 12,000 horse power
Cooke Dam was built
Cooke Dam was completed
Fire destroyed Loud’s mill, the only one operating, & opened the
area for the hydroelectric industry and tourist trade
Inspecting Dams & Dam sites, p123-131
Italians worked on Cook Dam, lived & cooked by themselves
Loud Co’s wanigan, the VOYAGER
*
The Cooke dam building site consisted of about 600 people
Very early proposed view of Cooke Dam on AuSable River
*
Cooke Dam, AuSable River, Oscoda, MI, aerial view
*
The Consumers Power Co, p51-54
Water Power, p119-122
Consumers Power reforestation along the river. 500,000 trees,
mostly red & white were planted
From Mio Dam to Foote Dam the river fall of 363.2 feet
Good general description: 6 dams built; with 4,000-9,000
kilowatts output at 2,500 volts.
Power lines run from the Mio dam through the other dams to
Foote dam, and then to Zilwaukee MI where it is tied to the rest of
the Consumers Power system.
Six dams built on the AuSable River
The swift current of the AuSable River destroyed some farms &
farmers sued Consumers Power, so Consumers Power bought
such lands to prevent this happening again.
Five Channels dam was completed
Five Channels, AuSable River, “Them dam cattle are always
*
fussin’ roun’ the spillway”, view from E, cattle in foreground
Excavator at Gravel Pit, Loud Site Dam,
*
Loud Dam was completed
Mio Dam was completed
Mio Dam, AuSable River, MI, below dam, postmarked Oct 14,
*
1922
Foote Dam was completed
Foote Dam, AuSable River, MI, view just below dam
*
The Dam at the foot of Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI, postmarked
*
Jul 4 1922, stamp
Alcona Dam was completed
Alcona Dam, Bamfield, MI, No 6, under construction
*
Consumers encouraged tourism, allowing public use of their
lands. However since misuse they have precluded much of the
former use.
Loud Site Dam, AuSable River, MI, below dam
*
The Old Dam on Van Etten Creek, near Van Etten Lake Lodge,
*
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P&Hp124
P&Hp122
P&Hp120
PC-18.02
HAO1p51
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HAO1p53
HAO2p17
HAO1p52
HAO1p52
HAO1p54
SWp44
PC-18.04
PC-18.06
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PC-18.05
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Fire
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1908
Fire
Fire
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1911
Fire
1911
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1911
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1911
Fire
1911
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1911
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1911
1911
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1911
1911
1911
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* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
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(half of card is missing)
Saturday evening bingo in the Oscoda Auditorium
The first fire engine in AuSable
John Howard Spencer, life of a fishing family
Forest Fires of 1908, Bradshaw photo, forest with flames tinted,
*
Blue slide #878
Forest Fires of 1908, Bradshaw photo, tinted sky fires,
*
postmarked Oct 19, 1908, Blue slide #882,
General View of the Village of Metz, After the Great Forest Fires *
of 1908, Bradshaw photo No.6,
Scene at Metz, of the Forest fires in Presque Isle Co, MI, The
*
great steel rails were twisted and warped as though they had been
straws, Bradshaw photo No.10, tinted fire & sky,
(Note on front: Oscoda Garage Fire), people, building, smoke
*
(Note on front: Relief committee, July 11, 1911), 7 women & 2
*
men, unidentified, skirts to ground, good photo
1st train after the fire took more than 1,000 refugees to the
*
Tawases
A.S.&N.W Engine, Fire of July 11, 1911, Stevens photo, engine
*
tipped over on tracks, postmarked Aug 11, 1911
A.S.&N.W Engines after the Big Fire, July 11, 1911, Wasson
*
photo #3, (2 copies), train engine and cars on side
A.S.&N.W. Machine Shop & Mill, AuSable, MI Stevens photo,
*
after fire, (3 copies, 1 is cut down, 1 has tinted fire) 1 cent stamp,
Black slide 53
About 600 houses destroyed, as well as mills & businesses. 5 lives
were lost & names given. Good description of the sequence of the
fire’s development and consequences during that day
Aftermath of the Fire, Alcona newspapers
Anniversary Oscoda Press article of July 11 1911, reprinted in the
Oscoda Press July 12 1961
Article about Henry & Alvina Berry
AuSable after the fire
*
Bank vault after fire
*
Bird’s Eye View Looking North from Waterworks Station, After
*
the fire at AuSable. July 11, 1911, Brown photo, bank in
background
Broken Pillars and crumbled stone tells of their yesterday,
*
AuSable, MI, Bradshaw photo No.10, tinted fire in sky
Burned Bridge & Mill, Fire of July 11, 1911, Oscoda, Stevens
*
photo, (2 copies)
Burying the carcasses, Fire in AuSable & Oscoda, MI, July 11,
*
1911, No.4, 2 men and dead cow or 2, Black slide 50, (2 copies)
Burying the carcasses, Fire in AuSable & Oscoda, MI, July 11,
*
1911, No.4, 2 men and dead cow or 2, Black slide 50, (2 copies)
C O Duncan tells of fire
Camping Grounds of a few of the people that were left homeless
*
in Oscoda & AuSable after the fire of July 11, 1911, Stevens
photo, tents & people in far distance, (3 copies, one cut down),
Black slide #60 & 61, (Note on back: At Race Track near D&M
Ref Code
1981Hp312
LBp036
1981Hp303
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PC-23.04
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PC-23.05
PC-23.03
PC-22.36
TY2p094
PC-22.27
PC-22.28
PC-22.22
HAO2p15
TTRp50
CAHp42
TTRp33
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TTRp52
PC-22.03
PC-22.15
PC-22.23
PC-22.26
PC-22.26
TTRp54
PC-22.34
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Fire
Fire
1911
1911
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
1911
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
1911
16
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
tracks)
Description
Dr Appelbe’s Office & Residence after Fire of July 11, 1911,
*
Oscoda, Stevens photo, 1 cent stamp, (on back: Dr Applebee)
End of the world, memory of Florence Kulazewski (Mielock)
Fire destroyed Loud’s mill, the only one operating, & opened the
area for the hydroelectric industry and tourist trade
Fire of 1911, see exhibit in the museum
Fire of July 11, 1911, Oscoda, MI, B&J or B&S photo, No.3, city *
jail in foreground, tinted fire
Fire Refugees, No.8, shows group of people camping in woods,
*
lady stirring pot on fire, (2 copies, 1 fire tinted red), (Note on
back: x is Ruth Thornton McLean)
Fire started near the depot from sparks from a logging train.
Strong winds and dry conditions cased fire to spread fast.
Forest Fire Scouts
*
Four bodies found, persons named
Hennigar brothers opening a safe in the rubble after the fire. Fire
*
chief in background
Henry Clayton Sherman story, by Vernon Wesley Sherman
Loud Residences & Rosenthall, Fire of July 11, 1911, AuSable,
*
MI, (2 copies, 1 says Stevens photo, wording slightly different on
bottom) Black slide 59.
Main St after the Fire, Oscoda, MI, 2 men in street walking, jail in *
background, bank in background
Main St Oscoda, MI, After the Big Fire, Brown photo, 2 vaults in
*
foreground, bank in background, groups of people standing
Main street before the fire
*
Main Street Oscoda, MI, Fire July 1911, Bradshaw photo, P.O.
*
Office marked on front, 2 vaults in foreground, bank in
background
Many people left & did not return
Mather family, describes the fire
Memories by an Unknown author
Memories of Alice Norling
Memories of Eva (Durette) Brown
Memories of Jennie Kulberg
Memories, Laura Marquardt
Memories, Mary Rose (Loyer) Vadeboncoeur
Mill Yards after Fire of July 11, 1911, Oscoda, Stevens photo,
*
(Note on front: Mill),
Mills burning across the river
*
Morse Marks’ Safe, Stevens photo, after the fire, group of men
*
around a safe, (Note on front: Julian, Jerry), (Note on back: Safe
only thing left of Morse Marks store after fire. Names on back:
Hennigars and Julian & Jerry Marks)
Mowatt Subdivison of AuSable, known as “Stovepipe Town,” did
not burn in the fire
New Hotel, Oscoda, MI, After Fire of July 11, 1911, new wooden *
building under construction, girl & soldier, 1 cent stamp
Ref Code
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PC-22.08
PC-22.33
HAO1p55
TTRp58
TY2p095
P&Hp117
TTRp42
PC-22.16
PC-22.06
PC-22.04
LSAFp012
PC-22.05
SWp43
1981Hp252
LBp093
LBp086
LBp091
LBp092
LBp085
LBp089
PC-22.21
P&Hp115
PC-22.25
1981Hp227
PC-22.35
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Category
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Fire
Fire
Fire
Date
1911
1911
1911
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
1911
1911
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
1911
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
Fire
1911
1911
17
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
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Newspaper Reports A Collection from the Henry Loud albums
NIKO, rescued fire refugees
*
Only industry left after the fire was fishing
Opening a Safe after the Big Fire, Oscoda, MI.Wasson photo 1G, *
Black slide 64, (2 copies) (Note on front: Fire Chief Thompson,
Chas & Jack [Hennigar]), 3 men
Oscoda & AuSable Leveled By Fire 50 Years Ago, July 11, p103105
Oscoda main street before & after fire,
*
Picture after the fire
*
Picture after the fire
*
Property loss of $2,000,000, ½ is the Louds
Red-Cross gave Napolean LaVoie $50.00 so he could rebuild
Refuge in the AuSable River Jacques LaVoie family
Remains of the old home residence of H.N. Loud, Fire 1911,
*
AuSable, MI, Bradshaw photo,
Rendered 1800 people destitute & homeless
Ruins of Catholic Church, AuSable, MI, Fire of July 11, 1911,
*
Stevens photo, Oscoda, Black slide 54
Ruins of Elliott Hotel, Fire of July 11, 1911, Oscoda, Stevens
*
photo, Blue slide 880, Black slide 52, (2 copies, different borders)
Ruins of Geo Loud’s Residence, Fire of July 11, 1911, AuSable,
*
MI, Stevens photo, Black slide 55
Ruins of Geo. Loud’s Residence, AuSable, MI, Fire of July 11,
*
1911, Stevens photo, Black slides 57 & 58, (3 copies, 2 clearer
than the third, 1 cut down.)
Ruins of H.M. Loud’s Sons Co Mill, AuSable, Wasson photo
*
Ruins of Loud Co’s Mill, AuSable, Stevens photo
*
Ruins of Oscoda- AuSable Bridge after the fire, July 11, 1911,
*
Wasson photo #2. (Mill St bridge by US-23), bank in background,
postmarked July 20 1911
Ruins of Oscoda Bank, Fire of July 11, 1911, Stevens photo,
*
looking N, (2 copies)
Scrap metal collection
See exhibit in the Museum
Ship THE RED, WHITE & BLUE
Soldiers Relieving the Fire Sufferers, Oscoda & AuSable, MI, July *
11, 1911, photo: B&S No.6, soldiers & people at a distance, with
tents in trees, Blue slide #883
Steamer NIKO rescues fire victims
Story by C O Duncan
Story by Dorothy Loud
Supply Tent for the People of Oscoda & AuSable after the fire of
*
July 11, 1911, tent full of supplies and 2 soldiers, Stevens photo,
Blue slide #881, postmarked 1911
The Arrival of D&M Train #3 at AuSable after the big Fire July
*
11, 1911, shows depot, crowd & passenger cars, Blue slide #884,
(4 copies), postmarked Aug?, 1911,
The AuSable/Oscoda Fire Of July 11 1911, by Frank Gardner
The Big Fire of 1911, p94-99
Ref Code
CAHp48
SWp41
HAO1p55
PC-22.24
1981Hp103
TTRp27
TY2p094
TY2p099
TY2p095
1981Hp238
TTRp54
PC-22.17
TY2p095
PC-22.11
PC-22.10
PC-22.14
PC-22.13
PC-22.19
PC-22.20
PC-22.02
PC-22.09
LSAFp019
E#01
TTRp53
PC-22.31
TTRp34
TTRp30
TTRp28
PC-22.32
PC-22.30
CAHp63
TY2p094
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Category
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Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Date
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
1911
Fire
Fire
1911+
1911+
Fire
1911+
Fire
1911+
Fire
Fire
1911+
1912
Fire
1913
Fire
1913
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1840s
1840s
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1840s+
1848
Fish-Com
1848
Fish-Com
1848
Fish-Com
1848
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1848+
1848+
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1848-1865
1860
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1863
1865
1865
1865
18
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
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The Big Fire, p112-118
The Day Oscoda Burned, by Jennie Kilberg, p102-103
The Day Oscoda Burned, by Jennie Kulberg
The Great AuSable Fire, by Raymond E Flynn, p107-108
The White City [white tents], AuSable & Oscoda Fire Refugees
*
Camp, July 17, 1911, Brown photo, tents near woods
Turcott’s Foundry and Shop After the fire July 11th 1911, Oscoda, *
MI, Wasson photo #12
View in Oscoda, Fire of July 11, 1911, Bradshaw photo, No.9,
*
tinted fire, (Note on front: Hull Res., bank)
View of the Fire Swept District, Main Street, Oscoda, MI, bank in *
background
Wrecked in the Big AuSable & Oscoda Fire, July 11, 1911,
*
Brown photo, train engine and cars on side
Main street of Oscoda, Oscoda rebuilds
*
Main Street, Oscoda after fire, (Note on back: l to r: Stevens
*
Photo, Al’s Meat Market, Mores Marks, V.E. Rix)
Oscoda Garage on fire, men standing around, (black slide #80) (2 *
copies)
The Geo. D. McNichol & Co. Bank, Oscoda, MI, new building,
*
horse & wagon, fire-barren landscape, (blue slide #885)
Underground fires burned for years at Pott’s Point
One-year reunion of 1911 fire survivors, photo of about 150
*
people
Iosco Co Turpentine Plant being destroyed by fire, Nov 3, 1913,
*
No.1, Affelt photo, building on fire, yard with tracks, fire tinted
Iosco Co. Turpentine Plant being destroyed by fire, Nov 3, 1913,
*
Affelt photo No.1, people, building on fire, tracks, tinted flames
Commercial fishing, see exhibit in the museum
Seasonal fisherman knew the AuSable River for its abundance of
fish
AuSable commercial fishing described, p45-47
First fisherman to settle in AuSable was George Hulett Duell &
Horace D Stockman
Fishing settlement established at AuSable, consisted of a few log
homes and some fisherman’s huts
Fishing settlement established at AuSable, consisted of a few log
homes and some fisherman’s huts
Fishing settlement established at AuSable, consisted of a few log
homes and some fisherman’s huts
The AuSable Fisherman, p9-23
When fog, ice, or a Northeaster kept men on shore they would
work on nets, repair boats & equipment
AuSable’s principal occupation was fishing
Sturgeon stacked on the dock in E Tawas, they were taken from
Tawas Bay by fisherman because they were a nuisance
James K Forrest, fishing & manufacturing of fish oil
Fishing gave way to the lumbering industry
Fishing gave way to the lumbering industry
Up to this time fisherman were the only settlers in AuSable
Ref Code
P&Hp112
1981Hp102
CAHp66
1981Hp107
PC-22.37
PC-22.12
PC-22.01
PC-22.07
PC-22.29
LBp095
PC-11.10
PC-11.08
PC-11.09
LSAFp046
LBp095
PC-23.07
PC-23.02
E#02
FS
1981Hp045
TY2p009
1883Hp121
LBp003
SWp06
TY2p009
1981Hp045
TY2p010
TY2p021
TY2p012
HAO2p06
TY2p013
HAO1p07
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Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
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Fish-Com
Fish-Com
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Fish-Com
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Fish-Com
Fish-Com
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Fish-Com
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1866
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1868
1868
1868
1870s
1876
1877
1879
1880
1883+
1888
1890+
1890s
1890s
1890s
1900-1941
1911
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1911
1911
1911
1911
1912
1914
1914
1914
1917
1917+
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1919
1920s
1924
1924
1925
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1928
1929
1929
1929
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1929
1930s
1930s
1930s
1930s
19
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
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Early AuSable River fishing Industry, by George B Benner
Commercial fishing
Commercial fishing
Description in the Iosco Co Gazette, 50 sail boats
Early AuSable River fishing industry, by James O Whittemore
Fishing Fleet
Record 14 tons of pickerel caught off Iosco Co shores
Spearing herring
2 men caught 200 grayling in 2 days on the AuSable
*
Only shipping prior1880 was by boat, then by rail
Ray Colbath family, a fishing family
Colbath family moved to AuSable
Fresh fished shipped on D & C boats
A story of commercial fishing – a family story
Boats with their colorful sails left the docks for fishing grounds
Description of Lake Huron fishing
John Howard Spencer, life of a fishing family
3 Fish markets: Hurketts Market; Joe’s [Fletcher] Market; & Ray
Colbath Fish Market
Colbath Fishery before the fire
*
Colbath Fishery before the fire
*
New boat house after the fire
*
RED, WHITE & BLUE Schooner aground
*
GRACIE, a fishing boat
Colbath Brothers Fisheries
*
Colbath Brothers Fisheries
*
GRACIE, Colbath Brother Fisheries
*
Michigan Fish Trade Association formed
WW-1, Colbath Fisheries was given AA-1 priority for gasoline ,
oil and any motors needed
RED, WHITE & BLUE
*
MARY, new boat bought by Colbath
Selling fish
*
Smoking fish
Edward A Trudell, a Tawas fisherman, warned the state that a ban *
on fishing during spawning season was needed & that the size of
perch & herring should be limited, or the fish would be depleted.
This was defeated by the large commercial fishing interests & the
fish were depleted.
Fishery on AuSable River
*
A freak May storm
CLEO, a cutter
Depression, fish dealer in Chicago where Colbath sent his fish
still could get money
MARGUERITHA beached during a May storm
*
Colbath Fish Industry
*
Fish market
New Fish Market
*
Seaman’s Fish Market & Matthew Fishery
*
Ref Code
TTRp02
1883Hp163
SWp09
TY2p012
TTRp02
TTRp03
TY2p020
SHp29
SHp29
TY2p019
1981Hp177
LSAFp004
HAO1P06
LSAFintro
LSAFp005
LSAFp005
1981Hp303
1981HP046
LSAFp015
LSAFp016
LSAFp022
LSAFp019
LSAFp023
LSAFp025
LSAFp026
LSAFp024
1981Hp045
LSAFp088
SWp57
LSAFp036
LSAFp057
LSAFp058
1981Hp314
LSAFp040
LSAFp080
LSAFp070
LSAFp084
LSAFp083
SWp54
LSAFp058
LSAFp062
SWp52
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Fish-Com
Fish-Com
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1931
1932
1932
1934
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
1934
1935
1935
1935
1936
1937
1941
1941
1941+
1947
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1950s
1954
1954
1960
Fish-Com
xxxx
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Fish-Com
xxxx
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
Fish-Com
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Fish-Com
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20
* = photo/sketch ↓
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Colbath move to fishery US-23
Colbath Fisheries & boats CLEO, MARY, & MARGUERITHA
*
MARGARET ANN, a gas boat
*
10-14 boats now, previously there were 50 commercial fishing
boats
A bad November storm
AGNES, this was the WANDER that was rebuilt
WANDER, a fishing boat
WANDER, renamed AGNES
*
MARGARET ANN changed to a gill net boat
MARGARET ANN, explosion
7 fishing companies in AuSable
Types of fishing described
WW-2
Brubaker’s boat at canoe race finish line
3 fish hatcheries closed, no restocking of fish
A mirage
Alewives a trash fish filled the nets
Botulism
Fish getting scarce
Fish laws became more stringent
Fish market sign, large painted perch (now at the museum)
*
Lake pollution contaminated fish
Lamprey ell prey on fish
Law limited fishing to 50 miles radius of home port was appealed
Sea gulls
Shipping Tag used in the Colbath Fish Boxes
*
Smelt planted for food for other fish ate spawn
Trade Mark used on the Colbath Fish Boxes
*
GERTRUDE K
*
GERTRUDE K bought by Colbaths
50 mi radius law lifted, then 17 companies fished from the
AuSable River & only two were local (Colbath & Matthews).
175 lb sturgeon caught in lake Huron, Oscoda, MI, Black slide
*
228, shows fish on deck of boat
ANNA MAE & fishery
*
BLONGRER
*
Boxes of nets, early on 4 boxes were used, now 12 boxes are used
Cedar soaked in sturgeon oil were used as floats, a good substitute
for cork
Cleaning fish nets with boiling water & Sal Soda or Fels Napatha
soap
CLEO
*
Colbath family at fishery, p64-66
*
Collecting spawn for the hatcheries
Extensive white fish and trout beds, sailing fleet of about 50
boats. Markets through Cleveland, Cincinnati & Sandusky.
Fish hatcheries retuned fingerlings to be planted in the
fisherman’s home port
Ref Code
LSAFp059
LSAFp076
LSAFp079
SWp51
LSAFp081
LSAFp070
LSAFp070
LSAFp121
LSAFp079
SWp56
HAO1p56
HAO1p56
LSAFp088
ARQp05
LSAFp123
LSAFp127
LSAFp123
LSAFp129
LSAFp060
LSAFp123
LSAFp063
LSAFp123
LSAFp123
LSAFp129
LSAFp127
LSAFp132
LSAFp123
LSAFp131
LSAFp090
LSAFp089
1981Hp046
PC-24.03
LSAFp078
SWp52
HAO1p07
TY2p021
LSAFp046
LSAFp077
LSAFp064
LSAFp071
HAO1p05
LSAFp073
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Fish-Com
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1900s
1910
Fish-Sport
1920
Fish-Sport
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Fish-Sport
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P
Fish oil obtained by boiling the fish intestines
Fish salted & shipped in barrels
Fisherman’s daily routine, 3am – 4pm
Fishing Fleet, AuSable River, Oscoda, MI, boats, buildings, Mill
*
St bridge, Dwight St water tower, Loud vault, probably Colbaths
GERALDINE
*
Giant trout
*
Grandpa Spencer making a new fish net
*
Group of 7 fishermen holding up a large sturgeon, (Note on back
*
says Guy Shellenbarger on left)
Help from the Coast Guard ice breaker
Homes of the Fishermen on the AuSable River, Oscoda, MI
*
homes, nets on racks, river and pilings, looking toward mouth of
river, Black slide 267, corner torn
Ice storm
Large fish
*
Lift, between 200-400 pounds
MARY, fishing boat
*
Mayme Turcott fishing
*
More than 30 sturgeon (4-7 feet in length) were caught in one net
after a NE storm near Oscoda
Nets, floats used were cedar, cork & aluminum in that order
Nets, see pages 102-108
*
Nets, see pages 95-100
*
Nets, sinkers used were stones (from Alpena) & then lead
Nets: Types, drying, patching & boxing
No demand for Sturgeon, sold to the Indians for 50¢ each
Packing fish for shipping
*
Pickerel fishing in Saginaw Bay
Speed Boat Riding on the AuSable River, Oscoda, MI (#N1125),
*
looking east to mouth of river, US-23 bridge, Seaman’s Fish
Market, 3 fishing boats
Sturgeon
Sturgeon & catfish weighing better than 100 pounds each were
stacked on the docks and taken away for fertilizer
Sturgeon, 175lbs, p113-114
*
Sturgeon, 62lbs & 62” long
*
Sturgeon, spawn for caviar
White fish & trout fisheries off the mouth of the river
WOLVERINE,
*
Fish caught in the AuSable River, J L Osborne
*
Three men with strings of many fish, probably early 1900’s
*
Beauties from AuSable River, AuSable, MI, 1910, Bradshaw
*
photo, fish & creels, 1 cent stamp
2 Men holding 2 fish, Black slide 317, (Note on back: John
*
McCuaig w/pike & Chas. Hennigar, Oscoda, MI, March 1920)
2 Men in suits holding fish on pole, (Note on back: Caught in
*
Booker? Lake)
Greetings, Oscoda, MI, A nice catch of German Brown Trout,
*
(color)
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I Guess about 5 lb all right. Lady showing her fish catch,
*
Bradshaw photo, pile of cut lumber on river bank, (Notes on back:
Mayme Turcott, April 24, 1909)
Long Lake, MI, 2 men’s hands holding string of fish
*
Muskalonge caught at Oscoda, MI Caught by Dr W.A. Noble, St
*
Marys, Ohio, Stevens photo, fish on scale
Sunset on the AuSable River, Oscoda, MI, fisherman in
*
foreground, (color)
Woman and 3 men holding catch of fish, (Note on back: Hilda
*
Swenson Ploughe?, Harold Trigger with fish.)
Breads, coffee-cakes & dumplings recipes, p47-52
Cakes, cookies & deserts recipes, p54-65
Etiquette
Health hints, p71-72
Jams & Jellies Recipes
Meat dish recipes, p10-23
Relishes recipes, p45-46
Salad recipes, p2-4
Sauce & Gravy recipes, p24-26
Snacks & candies recipes, p66-70
Soup recipes, p5-9
Vegetables recipes, p35-41
Wild game & fish recipes, p27-34
Wines & sprits recipes, p42-44
Food supplies from Detroit by boat
Prices given
Food prices
Rivermen, 5 meals a day
Rivermen, 5 meals a day
Wanigan described
During WW-1 fishing industry given a priority A-1
WW-1, eat more fish, cheese, eggs & poultry, save beef, pork &
mutton for our fighters
After the war, yellow margarine & frozen food was available
Black market food & cigarettes
Food prices
Candied mosquito wings
*
Interior of the cook’s camp
*
John Soucie, life time of cooking in lumber camps & restaurants,
p301-302
Men at a lumber camp going to dinner
*
The boys at camp
*
Tote roads & half-way houses with good food
Huron National Forest established
CCC did a great deal in 8 years for conservation & development
Huron & Manistee Forest were combined
The Old Sentinel Silently I watch, and secretly I keep the Joys &
*
Grief That by Me Pass. Bradshaw photo, tree, RR tracks or rutted
road, phone poles, (calls for 1 cent stamp)
Huron National Forest established
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Category
Forests
Fur
Date
1930s
1783
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Fur
Fur
Fur
Fur
1800
1800-1812
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1800s
1812
Fur
1823
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Fur
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1833
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1840s
1857
1867
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1867
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1867
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1870
1872
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1872
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Plantation – Huron National Forest, Oscoda, MI, #369100
*
The first fur trading post of record was operated by George Shead,
and his Chippewa wife and a daughter
Fur trading
Louis Chevalier occupied land later claimed
Louis Chevalier occupied the land later claimed in 1823
Louis Chevalier’s claim, subsequent owners
War interfere with the fur trade, but it developed rapidly after the
war
Chevalier, Lewis - recorded the first claim for land, a quarter mile
up from the mouth of the AuSable River, known as a "ribbon
Farm," where he built and ran a trading post. Historical marker
located at this spot on the river
Louis Chevalier entered claim
Louis Chevalier claim land in1823, patent issue 1843
Louis Chevalier, p5-7
The First Iosco county Merchant, by Albert H Buch. Louis
Chevalier received his grant to do business from the French
Government in 1823, and later from Michigan in 1871
The American Fur Company established a trading post at Lewis
Chevalier's place and traded there for over ten years, until the area
was trapped out
Louis Chevalier in Chicago
Louis Chevalier issued a patent for his “Ribbon farm”
Louis Chevalier claim had several owners, bought by Loud in
1866
General description of the Fur Trade, into & p1-28
*
Voyageurs & Fur Traders
Forming Local Government, p25-29
Treaty with the Indians ceded land to US
Government land survey
Government surveyed in 1840
Sable Township was created
Lots were sold subject to the condition that they could not be used
for the sale of liquor
Oscoda Village platted by Smith, Kelley & Dwight, about 100
acres in AuSable Twp
Smith, Kelly & Dwight platted Oscoda Village
Oscoda Twp was organized: T24N R5-9E & parts of T23N –R9E.
Lake Huron water level has receded over 400 feet from 1868 to
2001, which is the area where the Oscoda Beach Park is currently
located (09/26/2001p3c5).
Oscoda Township established
Oscoda Twp T24N-R5E was changed to Thompson Twp
Accession of the Loud property. Oscoda acquired 2 churches, a
school house, and interest of Loud, Gay & Co
Loud petitioned to have AuSable land attached to Oscoda. When
AuSable was made a City loud went back under AuSable
Received an accession, by the Loud property being detached from
AuSable
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Government
Government
Government
Government
Date
1872
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1873
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Government
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Government
Government
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1884
1885
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1889
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1891
Government
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1895
1911
1913
1913-1965
1917-1933
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1919
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1919
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1930
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1935
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Government
Government
1940s
1941
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
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Health
1862+
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* = photo/sketch ↓
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The Loud interest was removed from AuSable to Oscoda
Was incorporated as a village
Village Officers named
Incorporation of AuSable, p31-32
Village of AuSable incorporated Oct 15 1873, first village in
Iosco Co
Name changed to Township of AuSable, from Sable
Unincorporated village,
King’s Opera House built
*
Oscoda Incorporated as a village
Oscoda Village was incorporated
Oscoda Village was incorporated
Village of AuSable was reincorporated
Became a city
Becomes an incorporated City
Thompson Twp 2T24N-R5E was vacated and attached to Oscoda
Twp
Village of AuSable became a City
King’s Opera House
*
City of AuSable was vacated
Oscoda Township Hall
*
18th Amendment prohibited manufacturing alcoholic beverages.
Much “hooch” made in home-made stills
AuSable, $15,000 in debt. Some residents move their buildings to
the township to avoid foreclosure. Lawsuit was finally dropped.
Oscoda Village vacated & set back into Oscoda Township,
allowed Consumer Power taxes to be now spent on the village
AuSable City was abandoned due to owing $90,000 in unpaid
loans to the Union Trust Co of Kansas City
LeCureux family came to Oscoda for a 45¢ per hour job with the
State Highway Commission, through the WPA.
The Auditorium
Auditorium, Oscoda, MI, view from E, (Note: 9-11-1941)
*
Fire Department, Oscoda
*
Library, with parking meter, Oscoda
*
Oscoda Township Hall dedicated
*
Auditorium, Oscoda , MI, view from N
*
Auditorium, Oscoda, MI, view from N
*
Auditorium, Oscoda, MI, view from N, (Note on back: Oscoda
*
Township Hall)
High sidewalk, 5-6’ high, over a low wet area
Names of local communities given
Oscoda Auditorium
*
Oscoda Band Stand
*
The New Auditorium, Oscoda, MI, view from E, no landscaping,
*
Dwight St water tower rear right, (2 copies)
The Exchange hotel was inoculated with small pox and was
burned.
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Category
Health
Date
1866
Health
1866
Health
Health
1884-1885
1893
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Health
Health
Health
History
History
History
1895
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1953
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History
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History
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1875
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1911-1980s
1935
1940s
1862
1862
1862
1862
1873
Hotels
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Hotels
Hotels
Hotels
Hotels
Hotels
Hotels
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1880
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1880
1880
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1881-1882
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1910
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* = photo/sketch ↓
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P
Broken Leg, Isaiah Curry a teamster at Perry’s Camp on the
AuSable River broke his leg & was taken back to Camp. In two
weeks the leg was mortifying. Sent to Bay City for a physician,
who set his leg that was broken in 2 places. The leg did not need
amputation. Leg getting well, doctors charged $400.00. Later he
was taken to Bay City for more treatment. p3-6, 9-10
East Tawas. Mrs George Smith was taken with Typhoid Fever. Dr
Tupper was called from Bay City, at expense of $100.00 for a tug.
Porcupine quill
Insurance for lumberjacks. About MN, also StMarys Hospital in
Saginaw did the same for local lumberjacks
The Passenger – Smallpox Medicine, p101-103
Dr Dickinson practiced medicine in Oscoda
*
The “pest house”
StJoseph Hospital opened
*
History of AuSable & Oscoda, on DVD
History of AuSable & Oscoda, on Video
History of AuSable & Oscoda, written script for the Video &
DVD
AuSable described, p40-41
A brief description of the times
AuSable & Oscoda are similar & different
Oscoda, recent Developments, p55-62
AuSable described
Oscoda described as it was in 1935
Oscoda during the war years
Augustus Stall kept 1st hotel, the Exchange
First Hotel in AuSable
The Exchange was built in AuSable
The Exchange was the first hotel built in AuSable
Angus McDonald is building a four story hotel , 90 x 60 feet,
$12,000
The Winchester Hotel, This was part of the old Eagle Hotel, it
was rebuilt by J J Widdifield and renamed. In 1881 C E Narvin
became the proprietor.
Lee House, Charles Lee owner, map item #13
*
Lee House, Charles Lee owner, map item #13
*
Oscoda House, McLeod Proprietor, map item #14
*
Oscoda House, McLeod Proprietor, map item #14
*
Winchester House, J M Widdifield Proprietor, map item #12
*
Winchester House, J M Widdifield Proprietor, map item #12
*
The National Hotel built
The Natuinal Hotel, a brick hotel, the finest in four counties north
of Bay City, built by Selig Soloman. Cost $30,000.00
Elliot House, Oscoda, MI horses & wagons, autos, people.
*
Postmarked 1910, (Note on back: Main St. Oscoda), (blue slide
#887)
Elliott House, Oscoda, MI, Bradshaw Photo, horses & wagons,
*
autos, people. Postmarked Dec 20, 1910, (same photo as 13.01,
only this one is smaller and framed)
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Category
Hotels
Hotels
Hotels
Date
1911
1911
1911
Hotels
1920s
Hotels
1930s
Hotels
1940s
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1940s
Hotels
Hotels
xxxx
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Hotels
Hotels
Hotels
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Hotels
Hotels
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Houses
Houses
Houses
Houses
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1865
1865
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1877
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Houses
Houses
1880s
1909
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P
Elliott House hotel before & after the fire
*
New hotel being built
New Hotel, Oscoda, MI, After Fire of July 11, 1911, new wooden *
building under construction, girl & soldier, 1 cent stamp
Van Etten Lodge,Oscoda, MI , Stevens photo, Blue slide 872,
*
(Note on back: Van Etten Lodge, owned & operated by Frank
Cowley, lumberman. A swank place for summer visitors.
Colored help were housed in cottages near.)
Oscoda Inn, Oscoda, MI, (Sign says: Hot and Cold Running
*
Water, Showers Baths), (black slide #85) (same building as
Welcome Hotel, see 13.06 & 13.07)
Welcome Hotel on the bank of the Great AuSable River, Oscoda,
*
MI, #C-853, (b&w, same view as 13.07)
Welcome Hotel, Oscoda, MI, on Lake Huron. On the Bank of the *
Great AuSable River- postmarked Oct 13, 194?, (color, same
view as 13.06)
AuSable’s Winchester House owned by Selig Soloman
*
Currie House, Oscoda, MI, Stevens Photo, early autos & people,
*
(2 copies)
Elliott House in Oscoda
*
Lakeview Hotel
Oscoda Inn
*
Shore Line Van Etten Lake, showing Dance Pavilion & Lodge,
*
Oscoda, MI, Chereton photo,
The Lodge, Oscoda MI
*
The Lodge, Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI boats in foreground,
*
Black slide 428,
The Lodge, Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI,
*
Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda, MI, # A-1700, rear of lodge
*
Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda, MI, #A-1696, lobby & fireplace
*
Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda, MI, 4 photos
*
Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda, MI, Chereton photo
*
Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda, MI, Stevens photo,
*
Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda, MI.
*
A few fisherman’s huts & an old Indian log house
Comprised of a few fisherman’s huts and old Indian log house.
AuSable, 1st frame house built
First frame house built by Elijah Grandy
First frame house erected
George D McKay built the first frame house in Oscoda
AuSable homes of residents served as impromptu hotels
First brick home built in Oscoda by E A Brakenridge, cost
$3,000.00
First brick house built in Iosco Co at 218 W Dwight, Oscoda,
*
p59-61
Pack House Built by Greene Pack who was in the lumber & salt
business
Penoyer-Rosenthall House, see exhibit in the museum
Scene at Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI, Bradshaw photo, houseboat *
close up, (3 copies: 1 color, note on back: Loud “float” on Van
Ref Code
TTRp49
TTRp58
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PC-48.02
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PC-13.06
PC-13.07
TY2p030
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SHp36
PC-48.12
SHp37
PC-48.08
PC-48.01
PC-48.11
PC-48.05
PC-48.07
PC-48.06
PC-48.04
PC-48.13
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Category
Date
Houses
Houses
Houses
1911
1911
1911+
Houses
1911<
Houses
1912
Houses
Houses
1914
1930s
Houses
1936
Houses
1940s
Houses
Houses
1953
xxxx
Houses
xxxx
Houses
Houses
xxxx
xxxx
Houses
xxxx
Houses
Houses
Hunting
Hunting
Hunting
Hunting
Hunting
Hunting
Hunting
xxxx
xxxx
Hunting
Hunting
Hunting
Hunting
1920s
1940s
1940s
xxxx
Hunting
xxxx
Hunting
xxxx
Hunting
Hunting
xxxx
xxxx
1870
1878
1882
1884-1885
1885
1915
27
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Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Etten, one postmarked July 31, 1909), Blue slide ??
Loud house before & after fire
*
Rosenthal House before & after fire
*
Cooke Dam on the AuSable, Oscoda, MI, #C-823, view from N,
*
shows dam houses in distance
First M.E. Church, AuSable and Oscoda, MI , Bradshaw Photo,
*
shows church and part of Penoyar/Rosenthal house next door.
Insert show interior of church and organ, 1 cent stamp, postmark
unreadable. (blue slide 893) (2 cards)
House with picket fence, (Note on back: Damerau House on
*
Adams St. [River Rd] – 1912)
Home of fisherman on the AuSable River
*
State St, Oscoda, MI, (Main St), (Note on back: Main St in early
*
1930s, Auditorium on right, Sid Mead’s pool room left corner)
Pierce’s Point, Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI,, shows 3 cottages,
*
Black slide 206, (Note on back: 1936)
MI-A-Gander Resort Hotel, Oscoda, MI, auto in front, (Note on
*
back: Pack House).
Schmidt’s home called Vahalla burned in 1953
Bungalow, Loud’s Island, Van Etten Lake, Oscoda,MI, The
*
Cedars,
Cottage of G.B. Loud on Lake Van Etten, AuSable, MI,, Bradshaw *
photo , (Note on back: Loud cottage on mainland), calls for 1 cent
stamp
Fireplace at the Cedars at VanEtten Lake in Oscoda
House with dog, (Note on back: Looking toward MI Ave from
*
Superior: “The Cottage”)
Man & Woman sitting on porch of log cabin, (Note on back: Rev *
Simon Greensky & Mrs Lottie Greensky, Black slide 563
Oscoda’s brick house, the AuSable River Lodge (fine restaurant)
Residence of J C Gram, sketch of
Bobcats in AuSable River area
James Pa-she-go-bay killed 113 deer during the 1879 season.
Killed 7 bears in 2 days, Mr Simonds
Fred Tremaine killed a crane with nearly 7’ wingspan.
Rabbits
Venison on the market is slow this year.
Hunters’ Delight, Hale, MI, 1915, [L.L. Cook Co, 1940], 6 dead
*
deer hanging
3 men & 2 deer
*
Hunting & trapping
Tucker Swamp, a favorite hunting area
2 boys with guns and animal pelts, (Note on back, Willis
*
Densmore & another Densmore)
3 men and a dog in front of primitive tent, (Notes on back: Alec
*
Ellis, Uncle Jack Hennigar, see Alex & Jack in canoe)
3 men in front of Model A or T with dead deer and guns, Black
*
slide 546
4 men aiming rifles toward camera,
*
5 men at hunting camp, primitive tent, etc., (Note on back: Al
*
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PC-47.04
PC-47.02
SHp48
PC-14.02
PC-29.01
1981Hp059
1883Hp181
G1997/07p4
SHp30
SHp29
SHp30
P&Hp020
SHp30
PC-27.03
SHp33
WW2p06
WW2p48
PC-27.06
PC-27.05
PC-27.07
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PC-37.04
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Category
Date
Hunting
Hunting
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xxxx
Hunting
Hunting
Hunting
Iargo Spgs
Iargo Spgs
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
1934
1989-1990
Iargo Sprgs
Iargo Sprgs
xxxx
xxxx
Iargo Sprgs
Iargo Sprgs
xxxx
xxxx
Ice Harvest
Ice Harvest
Ice Harvest
Ice Harvest
Ice Harvest
Ice Harvest
Ice Harvest
Ice Harvest
Ice Harvest
Indians
Indians
1900s
1900s-1930s
1955
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
<6000BC
<6000BC
Indians
>2000BC
Indians
Indians
1500+
1600s
Indians
Indians
Indians
1800-1840s
1800s
1819
Indians
Indians
1819
1863-1883
Indians
Indians
Indians
Indians
Indians
Indians
Indians
1878
1900s
1900s
1940s
1950
xxxx
xxxx
28
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Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
th
Christeson 4 from left), (also see, Hunting)
5 men standing & sitting in hunting camp, very primitive tent, etc. *
5 men standing in hunting camp, very primitive tent, etc. (Note on *
back: middle man-Masterson?, third man-Al Christeson
Densmore boys with foxes
*
Oscoda, MI, A Day well spent, 2 hunters, dead deer, tent (color)
*
Oscoda, MI, The Hunter and his dog, (color)
*
New bridge at bottom near the 7 springs
*
Iargo Springs Stairway Dedication. $13,000 donations by local
*
citizins, list of donators
Iargo Falls, Oscoda, MI, C-1779, little girl on top of falls
*
Iargo Spring, AuSable River, MI, (Note on back: Neva Stevens
*
[her father was Fred Stevens who took all the postcard pictures]),
little girl beside top of falls
Iargo Springs on the AuSable, Oscoda, MI, bridge over stream
*
Iargo Springs on the old Saginaw to Mackinaw Indian trail. 7
crystal springs
Ice Industry Articles
Ice harvesting, see exhibit in the museum
Ice cutting on Cedar Lake
*
Made crushed ice with an ice machine, ice harvesting ended
Cutting & storing ice
Cutting ice
*
Ice from truck to conveyer to ice house
*
Ice House
*
Loading ice on the conveyor
*
Native American, see exhibit in the museum
Red sand (Ocher) comes from the burial ground on VanEtten
Creek, over 8000 years old
Stone tools found along VanEtten Creek and the AuSable River
date to 4000 years old
Chippewa Indian tradition
Three Fires Confederacy: Three Indian tribes in MI were the
Chippewa, Ottawa & Potawatome, all of the Ojibway Nation The
Chippewas were in the AuSable-Oscoda area
The French were peculiarly adapted to trade with Indians
General description of Indian life, Intro & p1-36
*
Indians ceded land to US Government, keeping 8,000,000 acres of
reservation- later ceded to the government. Government promised
$1,000.00 annually in silver forever- but payments were ceased.
Saginaw Treaty opens up land
A cemetery across from the Oscoda Indian Mission includes 8
persons buried between 1863-1883.
Indian Mission Church founded
Indian basket making
Indian burying grounds
Indian settlement
Chief Blue Cloud brought snow to Silver Valley
*
Early days at AuSable Village site at mouth of AuSable River
General info
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PC-27.01
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PC-27.08
PC-27.09
ISSDpxx
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PC-28.02
PC-28.01
PC-28.03
HAO2p18
G1997/01p4
E#13
1981Hp088
LSAFp053
LSAFp053
LSAFp054
LSAFp057
LSAFp056
LSAFp055
E#01
FS
FS
SWp03
FS
HAO2p05
OIcbp01
TY2p001
TY2p025
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TY2p002
TY2p003
TY2p002
WW2p58
1981Hp050
1883Hp162
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Category
Indians
Indians
Date
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Indians
Indians
Indians
Iosco Co
Iosco Co+
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xxxx
1842+
1840
Iosco Co+
1843
Iosco Co+
Iosco Co+
Iosco Co+
Iosco Co+
1854
1857
1857
1857
Iosco Co+
1867-1954
Iosco Co+
1907
Iosco Co+
1907
Iosco Co+
1907
Iosco Co+
Iosco Co+
Iosco Co+
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
1841±
1869
1871
1873
1874
1874
1874-1891
1875
1875
1875
Law
1875
Law
Law
1876
1876
Law
Law
Law
Law
1876
1876
1876
1877
29
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Indians of Iosco County, p1-4
Man & Woman sitting on porch of log cabin, (Note on back: Rev *
Simon Greensky & Mrs Lottie Greensky, Black slide 563
Rev & Mrs Simon Green Sky
*
Rev Simon Greensky Indian Pastor
*
The Indians, p104-108
Iosco County log marks, p7-15, p25 & p45
*
State Legislature parceled out the whole territory north of
township 20 into counties & attached them all to MIilimackinac.
Iosco Co then named Kanotin
Henry R Schoocraft, Indian commissioner in MI, had Kanotin
county change to Iosco county.
The Whittemores founded Tawas City
Gideon O Whittemore founder of Iosco county
*
Iosco County was created
The Whittemores petitioned the Legislature to erect the county as
Iosco: Established with two townships Sable (AuSable) & Tawas
New Court house approved, two-story wood frame, used until
1954 when replaced
Lake Solitude, Tawas, MI, Bradshaw photo, (# unclear),
*
postmarked Apr 26, 1907, stamp
Lovers Lane, Tawas Beach, East Tawas, postmarked Apr 25,
*
1907, stamp
Souvenir East Tawas MI, Lake Solitude, Tawas Beach, Bradshaw *
photo, postmarked Mar 5, 1907, stamp
Dyer’s Resort, Long Lake, MI, boats tied in water
*
Pine River, Alcona County, MI,
*
Silver Valley Winter Sports, Hale, MI, toboggan run, #?-1492
*
Jackson State Prison
*
Farrington, possession & selling counterfeit currency
Temperance
Article about AuSable now being peaceful & quiet town
Bar room brawl, Mike Burke & George Benner’s ear
Previous poor justice in AuSable
Drunken Row, dangerous melee, saloon shooting, clever capture
Fanny Rivers - aka Mrs E D Rivers
Farrington a watchmaker was arrested for Stewards murder.
Farrington named Charles Riker & Daniel Sullivan as 2 of 3
murders
William Stewart - was found dead Oct 25 1875 on the boardwalk
in AuSable, with axe wounds to the head. He was a wholesale
liquor dealer. He reported had about $800-1,000 when last seen,
but no money found on the body
Farrington tunneled to freedom, but is captured in three days
Farrington’s first escape attempt, attacked his keeper Richard J
Nye
Farrington’s lawyers plead to change of venue
Henry Farrington’s jail escape
Iosco County Court House
*
Farrington 3rd escape attempt
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TY2p025
TY2p024
SWp07
TY2p026
JOWJp25
PC-45.04
PC-45.01
PC-45.03
PC-45.05
PC-45.02
PC-49.02
MIAp126
MIAp120
LBp065
TTRp15
TTRp13
MIAp057
LBp066
MIAp011
MIAp002
MIAp026
MIAp001
MIAp076
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MIAp044
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Category
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Date
1877
1877+
1878
1878
1879
1879
Law
Law
1879
1879-1882
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
1880
1880
1880
1880s
1882
1884
1884
1884
1884
1885
1885
1885
1885
1885
1885
1885
1885
1885
1885
1887
1887
1887
1887
1888
1888
1888
1888
1888
1888
1888
1888
1889
1889
1889
1890
1890
1891
1891
1891
30
* = photo/sketch ↓
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P
Farrington’s trial, found guilt & sent to Jackson prison
Farrington’s prison years
Assault & battery
Larceny
Fraud
History Of Law Enforcement In Iosco County MI, by Raymond
Knuth, p128-130
Opening saloon & bar on Sunday
The Northern Michigan Secret Service Company, ceased when
the county sheriff took over
Assault with intent to kill & murder
Dancing & killing at Shad House
Intoxication
Laura Shippy injured on a defective AuSable sidewalk
Slander
Bar room brawl, Mike Burke bit Henry McCann’s lip
Farrington pardoned
Forcible entry
Garnishee & attachment
Arson
Bar room brawl, Mike Burke bit John McGill’s ear
Embezzlement
Farrington arrest, attempted to kill Mr Nye his jailer
Farrington escaped from jail with Richard Burke
Farrington found dead in a boat in Canada
Farrington, in his coffin
*
Farrington’s tombstone
*
Perjury
Rape
Forgery
Replevin for 58 logs
Violating game law
Violating liquor laws
Adultery
Bastardry
Bathing naked
Burglary
Killing a deer out of season
Log lien case
Using gill nets of unlawful size
Violating fish laws
Concealed weapons
Horse stealing
Mechanics Lien
Abducted, Miss Florence Nightingale
Wes Kenney shot George Betz dead
Being a disorder & a common prostitute
Being a juvenile disorderly
Cutting lumber, trespass
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MIAp125
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1981Hp128
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1981Hp132
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MIAp144
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Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
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Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
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Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
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Law
Law
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Law
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Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Law
Date
1892
1892
1892
1892
1893
1893
1893
1894
1895
1895
1895
1895
1895
1895
1896
1897
1898
1901
1903
1903
1905
1905
1905
1906
1907
1907
1907
1907
1908
1908
1908
1909
1909
1910
1910
1911
1911
1912
1940s
1940s
1940s
1940s
1954
1954
1954
1954
1954
1955
1955
31
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Another Murder, Olson & Benson
Beating a hotel
Stealing washing of the clothes line
Walking a horse on the sidewalks
Inquest of 11 bodies drowned
Killing partridges in closed season
Killing robins & other song birds
Larceny of cow worth $28.00
Cruelty to animals
Disturbing a school meeting
Lewd & lascivious association & cohabitation
Selling adulterated vinegar “The Alden Vinegar”
Selling Cigarettes to a boy 11 years old
Selling liquor to a minor
Bad language & conduct on street
Indecent exposure of his person
Killing wild ducks out of season
Poisoning of cattle
Allowing dead animals to lie on public highway
Larceny, juvenile offender & habitual truant
Labor lien
Libel – slander
Murder
Killing sheep
Abduction
Murder at AuSable, Ferris & Duley
Murder at Oscoda, Turcott, LaPlant (McKay) & Munday
Violating of bicycle laws
Destroying personal property
Hunting deer with dogs
Setting fire to woods
Having in possession illegal fish, under sized perch
Refusing to send children to school
Illegal catch of white fish
Incest
Desertion of wife & children
Unlawful entry to State land & removing timber
Enticing a female under age 16 for purpose of concubinage
Charlie the cop
Eddie “Buckshot” Johnson’s suicide
Moonshine & “goings-on”
Oscoda, curfew strictly enforced
Assault on a police officer
Concealed weapons
Defective muffler
Impersonating a officer
Reckless driving
Excessive speed, 65 in 30
Minors in possession of beer & whisky in a motor vehicle
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LBp073
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP2
JP6
JP6
JP3
JP6
JP6
JP6
JP3
LBp083
LBp079
JP6
JP6
JP3
JP6
JP6
JP3
JP3
JP3
JP3
JP3
JP3
LBp108
WW2p12
WW2p12
WW2p11
JP4
JP4
JP4
JP4
JP4
JP4
JP4
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Category
Law
Law
Law
Law
Legends
Date
1979
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
1906+
Legends
1971-1981
Legends
Lumber-Boom
xxxx
1842+
Lumber-Boom
1855*
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
1855+
1867+
1867-1897
1867-1897
1867-1897
1867-1897
1867-1897
1867-1897
1867-1897
1877-1883
1879-1883
1884
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
1884c
1888
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
1897
1897
Lumber-Boom
1908
Lumber-Boom
1913
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Boom
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
xxxx
xxxx
1872
1874
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
1874
1884-1885
1886-1887
1886-1887
1886-1887
1887-1888
1888-1889
1890-1891
32
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Jail escape by John Whiting
Farrington’s early life: A schemer, gambler, watchmaker, thief
Felix O’Toole & his money
Jesse Duell & his lost fingers
General description of the Paul Bunyan legend, the folk hero of
8
the lumbering industry, p1-16
Paul Bunyan Festival Inc, 3” notebook of correspondence, flyers, *
newspaper clippings etc. [AOHSM].
Round River, by Mrs Bernard Shrock, p121-123
MI Legislature law allowed log marks to be registered in the
county where the logs were to be manufactured
MI Legislature allowed creation of Boom companies, modified in
1964
The Oscoda Boom Co
Boom Companies, organized & annual stats, p54-55
A Boom Co sorting gap on the AuSable River
*
Boom Co bridge over the AuSable River
*
Boom Co employees & families
*
Boom Co employees on logs in the river
*
Boom Co operated below the Indian Islands
Boom Companies described, p26-29
The Boom Company, p11-16
Oscoda Boom Company
VanEtten Boom Co
Oscoda Boom Co handled 175,000,000 feet of timber, drop of
38,000,000 from prior year
Oscoda Boom Co
*
Working for the Boom Company, describes the river men’s work
driving logs, p53-64
Farewell Gathering of the Boom Boys, menu & guest List
*
Farwell Gathering of the Boom Boys of the Oscoda Boom Co at
*
th
the Elliott House, Friday September 24 1897
Watching the Gap, AuSable River, Boom Co., Bradshaw photo,
*
Blue slide 874, postmarked Mar 4, 1908, (Note on back: Ben
Kitchen sitting on booms)
Sorting boom, log jam, Loud mill in background, looking SE on
*
AuSable River, 1/13/1913
A sorting boom
*
Log marks described
Loud firm was operating 10 lumber camps
Dec 31 1874, 16 men cut 2,262 logs. 14 men with 4 teams & 3
yoke of oxen skidded 2,232 logs
The Loud firm operated 10 lumber camps
McCallum’s Cedar Camp, p20-21
Description of a bunk house in a logging camp
Phalen’s Camp, p27-42, description of a logging camp
The “horse pound” in a logging camp
Camp Eight, p43-52
McCallum’s Lumber Camp, p65-74
Mean horses
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MIAp117
TTRp13
TTRp13
PBcbp01
PBF
1981Hp121
MLMp04
MLMp10
MLMp43
TY2p054
SHp23
P&Hp015
P&Hp014
P&Hp012
P&Hp013
HAO1p26
P&Hp011
1883Hp189
1883Hp189
NSp16
NSp15
P&Hp053
P&Hp136
P&Hp135
PC-34.02
RNH1.08
L&Lcbp21
TY2p089
HAO2p19
TY2p088
TY2p087
P&Hp020
P&Hp029
P&Hp027
P&Hp029
P&Hp043
P&Hp065
P&Hp086
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Category
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Date
1906
1909
Lumber-Camp
1910
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
1913
1913
1927
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-Camp
xxxx
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Camp
Lumber-Dock
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
1867
Lumber-Dock
Lumber-Dock
Lumber-Dock
1868
1884
1909
Lumber-Dock
Lumber-Dock
1909
1909
Lumber-Dock
Lumber-Dock
1909
1909
33
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Only cedar being cut for ties & post, floated on the river
Largest load of logs ever hauled on sleigh by horses, 1909,
*
Blackduck, Minn.
Scene near Oscoda, MI, horses, men, dog & huge log load,
*
postmarked 1910
Horses, men and log loads, #80 postmarked Dec 2, 1913
*
Horses, men and log loads, #80 postmarked Dec 2, 1913
*
Cutting of Jack Pine for paper pulp begun
2 people in woods
*
2 people in woods, piles of logs
*
3 teams at Stub Marsh’s camp & big wheels for uphill haul
*
Big Wheels & single team in action
*
Big Wheels loaded & ready to be hitched to a team
*
Buildings in lumber camp
*
Crew going to Supper at Lindsay’s Camp
*
Cutters & skidders having their dinner in the woods
*
Dancing & singing, some men wore aprons & pretended to be the *
women dancing partner
Group of “shanty boys” at Ganley’s Camp
*
Hauling Logs with Big Wheels, turn of the century, Steiner
*
collection
Horses & men in woods
*
Horses pulling huge log load with men on top, Steiner collection
*
Horses pulling load of logs
*
In the logging camp the cook did not allow taking while eating,
*
this reduce the possible of a fight
Lumber camp with piles of logs around, (Note on back: Loud
*
lumber camp)
Men & Horses in woods
*
Men & Horses in woods, & a Shack,
*
Men on logs on river in mist, (Note on back: River Hogs)
*
Men with tools & huge log pile,
*
Sleigh load & team, piles of logs & dray on foreground
*
Sleigh load & team, piles of logs & dray on foreground
*
Sleigh load of logs a Ganley’s Camp
*
Teams hitched to the big wheels at Marsh Camp
*
The Lumberjack, p109-115
Smith, Kelley & Dwight came to Oscoda, built docks in 1868,
built mill in 1873
Smith, Kelley & Dwight built first docks in AuSable
Dock workers were first to strike, all others soon follow
After the Storm, April 30, 1909, Oscoda, MI, Bradshaw photo,
*
docks broken, lumber piled on beach, several men
Loading timber docks after a 1909 Lake Huron storm
*
Results of the Storm April 30, 1909, Oscoda, MI, Bradshaw photo, *
lumber docks partly washed away, (blue slide 869, black slide
225)
Saving the lumber after the 1909 storm
*
Saving the Lumber, Scene after the Storm April 30, 1909,
*
Bradshaw photo, shows lumber dock, steamboat dock, people,
Ref Code
P&Hp109
PC-32.09
PC-32.07
PC-32.04
PC-32.04
1981Hp015
PC-32.12
PC-32.11
P&Hp046
P&Hp045
P&Hp037
PC-32.14
P&Hp102
P&Hp009
L&Lcbp14
P&Hp031
PC-32.08
PC-32.05
PC-32.10
TY2p107
L&Lcbp12
PC-32.13
PC-32.02
PC-32.01
PC-34.03
PC-32.06
P&Hp033
P&Hp033
P&Hp035
P&Hp049
TY2p109
HAO1p18
TY2p051
HAO1p41
PC-19.02
P&Hp077
PC-19.01
P&Hp078
PC-19.03
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Date
Lumber-Dock
Lumber-Dock
Lumber-Dock
1909
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-Dock
Lumber-Dock
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
xxxx
xxxx
1836+
1855-1859
1860s+
1865
1865
1865-1898
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1865-1911
1866
Lumber-Gen
1866
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1867
1868+
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1870
1871-1884
1872
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1873
1875
1875-1883
1875-1883
1877-1883
1877-1894
1880
1880
1880±
34
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
horses and carts saving the lumber, (blue slide 868, black slide
226), (2 copies)
Strom damage to lumber docks in Oscoda
*
Detroit & Cleveland steamboat “City of Alpena”
*
Dock Wallopper with leather aprons loaded lumber on the lumber
boats
Dray load of logs at bank of river
*
Loading limber barges at Pott’s docks – AuSable River mouth
*
Lumbering, p8-31
MI Legislature law involving log thieving
Lumbering In The AuSable River Valley, p119121
Fishing gave way to the lumbering industry
Fishing gave way to the lumbering industry
Company name changed:
1865 – Loud, Priest & Shepard
1868 – Loud, Priest & Gay
xxxx – Loud, Gay & Co
1876 – Oscoda Salt & Lumber Co (operated by trustees)
1887 – H M Loud & Sons Lumber Co
1898 – H M Loud Sons’ Co
Life of active lumbering was only about 45 years
Company name changed:
1866 – A Burrows
xxxx – John C Gram
xxxx – Edward F Loud
1883 – T F Thompson & Penoyar Bros
1884 – Penoyar Bros
1894 – Penoyar Bros mill was moved to Chippewa Co MI
Timber survey revealed best pine north of Saginaw was along the
banks of the AuSable River
3 Logging firms represent a capital investment of $383,000.
Company name changed:
1868 - Smith, Kelley & Dwight
1877 - Gratwick, Smith & Co
1880 - Gratwick, Smith & Fryer
Most valuable pine timber was gone
Depression in 1871, 1874, 1879 &1884
Henry Loud - successfully petitioned the State to have his land
holdings (the Chevalier claim and area north to the river) detached
from AuSable and added to Oscoda MI
Money panic of this year and the lumbering industry is slow
3/5 of all White Pine in US was in MI
Backus Brothers
J E Potts Salt & Lumber Co
Pack, Woods & Co
Pack, Woods & Co, a lumbering company
Oscoda Salt & Lumber Co, map item #15
*
Oscoda Salt & Lumber Co, map item #15
*
Many tons of marsh hay grown on the Tuttle farm in Tawas was
hauled to the Oscoda Lumber Co in Oscoda to feed their horses
Ref Code
SWp23
P&Hp082
HAO2p16
P&Hp034
P&Hp076
HAO1p08
MLMp12
1981Hp119
HAO2p06
TY2p013
TY2p049
HAO1p26
TY2p050
TY2p048
TY2p050
TY2p051
1981Hp015
NSp03
FS
HAO2p12
TY2p057
1883Hp183
1883Hp183
1883Hp188
TY2p051
1880m
1880mc
1981Hp268
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Category
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Date
1880s-1911
1881
Lumber-Gen
1882
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1882-1883
1883
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1883
1883
1883
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1883
1883+
1884
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1884
1884
1884-1890
1884c
1890
1890
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1890
1890
1890s
1890s-1920s
1895
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
1895±
1906
1910s
1911
1911+
1911+
1932
1932
1932
1932
Lumber-Gen
1982
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-Gen
xxxx
35
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
See exhibit in the museum
September, Pack, Woods & Co employed 308 men: Hourly pay
was 75 cents for lowest laborer to $3.75 for saw filers.
Pack, Woods & Co incorporated with Green Pack as
superintendent.
Table of the log crop
J C Gram, C E Jennison, W H Tousey & E T Carrington
organized the AuSable Lumber Co, p20-22
J E Potts Salt & Lumber Co
Lumbering is he foundation of the prosperity of this region
Only business at the mouth of the AuSable River before
lumbering was fishing
The AuSable Lumber Co
Loud bought J E Potts Salt & Lumber Co
June 17th, 800 men struck, demanded same wage as last year &
pay every week
The Great Mill Strike
The great mill strike at AuSable-Oscoda, p1-20
*
AuSable-Oscoda enjoy 6 years of prosperity, 1890 was peak year
Office of H M Loud & Sons
*
AuSable-Oscoda, 1890 was peak year of prosperity
Peak of lumbering days, AuSable & Oscoda produced
324,503,531 feet of lumber
Trip to Port Sanilac, p81-84
When White Pine Was King, p47-55
Potts Co failed. Beginning of logging decline.
William Henry Ellis, worked in lumbering & railroad
*
th
Feb 24 , all flags in AuSable-Oscoda were flown at half mast due
to death of Greene Pack
Mid 1890s timbers industry reached its peak
Much cutover land going back to the state for taxes
When the mills failed 1/3 of the population move away
Exterior of Loud Co store at Comins, prior to fire
*
Edwin E Thompson, Oscoda lumber business man
Pick-ups & A Horse, p132-136
Lumberman’s Memorial, see exhibit in the Museum
Lumberman’s Monument
*
Lumberman’s Monument built, monument described
Lumbermen’s Memorial, $50,000 cost bore by family of those
*
named on the memorial, p100-103
Lumberman’s Memorial Rededication article By James
Donaldson
AuSable River Valley noted for the White & Norway pines
Cloverdale Loud Company for several years had a man whose
sole business was to hunt for prospective settlers to by cut over
land
Employees homes sold, dismantled, and shipped to buyers
Employees lived mostly in homes built by the lumbering
companies
Everything a race, p7-10
Ref Code
E#08
NSp18
HAO1p24
1883Hp190
HAO1p20
LSAFp046
1883Hp183
1883Hp183
1883Hp187
LSAFp046
NSp03
TY2p071
NSp01
NSp16
NSp13
NSp16
HAO2p11
P&Hp081
TY2p047
TY2p049
1981Hp189
NSp18
SWp28
P&Hp109
TY2p086
P&Hp113
1981Hp312
P&Hp132
E#08a
P&Hp138
HAO1p60
TY2p100
CAHp76
P&Hp139
HAO1p31
HAO1p45
HAO1p45
P&Hp007
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Category
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Date
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Gen
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
1836
1836
Lumber-Mill
1836
Lumber-Mill
1860s
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1862
1862+
1865
Lumber-Mill
1865
36
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Fire protection
Foreign workers: Loud brought Scotch men from Eagle Canada;
Loud brought French men from Quebec; Swedes & Norwegians
brought from Chicago; Loud brought men from NY state; Oscoda
Salt & Lumber Co brought men from Ottawa
General description of life in the lumbering industry
Glossary of Terms – Big Wheels
Glossary of Terms - Boom
Glossary of Terms - Boom Company
Glossary of Terms – Cross haul
Glossary of Terms – Flying read
Glossary of Terms - Gaps
Glossary of Terms – Jammer
Glossary of Terms – Long timber
Glossary of Terms – Lumber Scaler & Tally Boy
Glossary of Terms – Lumber tram, elevated railway
Glossary of Terms – Mill-jack
Glossary of Terms – Pickaroon
Glossary of Terms – Pike pole
Glossary of Terms – Salt Making
Glossary of Terms - Skidways
Glossary of Terms – Solid jam
Glossary of Terms – Sprinklers
Glossary of Terms - Swampers
Glossary of Terms – Swede Hole
Glossary of Terms – The Van
Glossary of Terms - Wanigan
Glossary of Terms – Wing jams
Greetings from Newberry, MI, (color)
*
Most companies would sell cut over land if asked.
Pack, Woods Lumber Co Store
*
Smaller lumbering companies named
Swamp gas or Will-of-the-Wisp
T F Thompson, Iosco Co lumberman
*
There are 4,000,000,000 feet of good pine next to the river
Timber In Michigan, p123-124
Waste Land, p109-111
First sawmill built at VanEtten Creek by Howard VanEtten
First watermill built by Messrs Howard & VanEtten, never sawed
any lumber, abandoned
Howard & VanEttan built a water mill on VanEttan Lake, it was
washed away several times & abandoned. Never sawed any
lumber
Water driven gang saws were replaced by steam drive circular
saws
John F Park & Co built a shingle mill
Holcher shingle mill was built
618 men at work in Oscoda: 123 were native American & 495
were foreign born.
Backus Bros started first operational sawmill at Potts Point
Ref Code
1883Hp186
HAO1p44
L&LcbIntro
P&Hp141
P&Hp140
P&Hp140
P&Hp141
P&Hp141
P&Hp140
P&Hp141
P&Hp141
P&Hp141
P&Hp142
P&Hp140
P&Hp141
P&Hp140
P&Hp141
P&Hp140
P&Hp140
P&Hp141
P&Hp140
P&Hp142
P&Hp142
P&Hp140
P&Hp141
PC-32.15
HAO1p31
P&Hp028
TY2p052
LSAFp048
TY2p029
1883Hp162
1981Hp123
P&Hp109
TY2p047
HAO1p08
1981Hp040
1981Hp123
HAO1p20
HAO1p20
HAO1p45
TY2p048
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Category
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Date
1865
1865
1865
1865-1875
1865-1875
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1865-1883
1865-1895
Lumber-Mill
1866
Lumber-Mill
1866
Lumber-Mill
1866-1883
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1867
1867
1867
Lumber-Mill
1867-1883
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1868
1868
1870
1872
1873
Lumber-Mill
1873
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1873-1883
1873-1890
Lumber-Mill
1873-1900
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1875
1875
1875-1883
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1877
1877
Lumber-Mill
1877
Lumber-Mill
1877
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1877-1879
1877-1894
37
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Loud, Priest & Shepard, company described, p11-17
Loud, Priest & Shepherd came to AuSable
Pott’s Point bought by Backus Bros & put up a saw mill
Backus Brothers
Second mill built by Absolum & Albert Backus & sold 1875 to
John E Potts
Oscoda Salt & Lumber Co
In 30 years enough lumber was sawed at AuSable to build a board
fence more than 20 times around the world
Bossing mill hands; Laziness is both chronic and epidemic, as it
used to be years ago
Tawas City January 24. “Today a sawmill [parts of], probably
Loud’s at AuSable is going by on sleighs. Quite a string of teams
with smokestack, machinery & provisions, et cetera.”
The River Mill, built by A Burrows, changed ownership several
times & then bought by J C Gram, who then sold it to E F Loud.
1883 Loud sold it to T F Thompson & Co.
Backus Bros sawmill burned, & was rebuilt
Smith, Kelley & Dwight came to Oscoda from Forester
Smith, Kelley & Dwight came to Oscoda, built docks in 1868,
built mill in 1873
Smith, Kelly & Fryer Lumber Co & 1877 it changed to Smith,
Gratwick & Co.
Hikcher shingle mill built
Hugh F Park & Co built a mill
Mouth of the AuSable River & Backus Bros Lumber Mill
*
400 men in AuSable & Oscoda employed in the lumber mills
Mill wages were $2.50 per day on average, $2.00 lowest & $5.00
highest.
Smith, Kelley & Dwight built first mill, destroyed by fire 1877 &
rebuilt 1882
Moore & Tanner mill
Charles Lee erected a mill, sold to John C Gram in1880, sold to
AuSable Lumber Co, & burned 1890 & not rebuilt
Mill started 1873 & completed 1876 by Stephen Moore & Charles
Tanner. It operated until 1890
5 logs (1 of 12ft & 4 of 16ft) from 1 white pine tree, 5,835 feet.
J E Potts bought mill from Backus
Backus Bros mill sold to J E Potts, 1883 became the J E Potts Salt
& Lumber Co
1st Water Power Sawmill in Sand Creek owned by Alva Woods
Loud holdings: Saw mills, 2 salt blocks, dock, trams, line of tow
barges & standing pine.
Loud owned 2 sawmills, 2 salt blocks, dock, trams, line of tow
barges & standing pine
Oscoda Salt & Lumber Co’s (the Loud mill) first mill & salt block
was destroyed by fire & was rebuilt and designated the “iron
mill.”
Mill owners start a Boom Co
Pack, Woods & Co built a mill & salt block: George W Pack,
Ref Code
HAO1p11
TY2p049
LSAFp046
1883Hp183
HAO1p08
1883Hp184
TY2p089
JOWJp18
JOWJp05
1883Hp185
TY2p048
1883Hp162
HAO1p18
1883Hp186
TY2p051
TY2p051
TTRp01
TY2p087
HAO1p40
TY2p051
1883Hp188
TY2p051
HAO1p22
TY2p088
LSAFp046
TY2p048
1981Hp012
HAO2p18
TY2p088
HAOp11
P&Hp011
HAO1p23
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Category
Date
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1879-1883
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880-1882
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1881
1882
1882
1882-1957
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1883
1884
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1884c
1884c
1884c
1884c
1890
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1894
1895
1895
1900
1903
1910
Lumber-Mill
1910
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
1911
1917-1922
1936-1957
38
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
John L Woods & Edwin Holmes, operated until 1894, p23-26
VanEtten Creek Improvement Co
Charles Lee’s Lumber Mill & Dock, map item #16
*
Charles Lee’s Lumber Mill & Dock, map item #16
*
Gram Brother’s Saw Mill & Docks, map item #17
*
Gram Brother’s Saw Mill & Docks, map item #17
*
J E Potts’ Saw Mill & Docks, map item #18
*
J E Potts’ Saw Mill & Docks, map item, #18
*
Moore & Tanner’s Saw Mill & Docks, map item #19
*
Moore & Tanner’s Saw Mill & Docks, map item #19
*
Pack, Woods & Co’s Saw Mill, map item #21
*
Pack, Woods & Co’s Saw Mill, map item #21
*
Pillette’s Planing Mill, map item #22
*
Pillette’s Planing Mill, map item #22
*
Gratwick, Smith & Fryer mill described in the Lumberman’s
Gazette
Potts improved mill & built a refuse burner 12’ wide & 100’ high
Phillips Bros Planing Mill built
There were 8 mills running
Asa J Rodman bought mill from Alva Wood, and moved it to
Silver Creek. Operated it many years, worked day & night in the
spring, under oil lamps at night. His son Lewis Rodman operated
the mill 1936-1957
Potts mill described in the Lumberman’s Gazette
Loud paid 1.37½ per hour plus bonus of 12½ if work satisfactory
all year.
AuSable Lumber Co, J C Gram Mill
*
J E Potts’ sawmill – AuSable
*
OS&L Co’s (Loud) Iron Mill at Bayou
*
Oscoda Salt & Lumber Co’s Band Mill
*
J E Potts was one of largest mills in the world, cut lumber at
McKinley in Oscoda Co (now a ghost town)
Pack, Woods & Co was dismantled and moved
Loud sawed hardwoods, cedar & hemlock as well as pine.
Pack, Woods & Co was dismantled & scrapped
Hull & Ely bought the Moore & Tanner mill
Loud Mill & Yard, AuSable
*
Industries of the H.M. Loud’s sons Lumber Co., AuSable, MI,
*
1910,.panoramic view, left of 2 cards, shows Band Mill & Bridge
, Black slide 221, (unmarked Stevens photos), (1 copy left card,
tinted), see 33.03 below
Industries of the H.M. Loud’s Sons Lumber Co., AuSable, MI,
*
1910, panoramic view, right of 2 cards, shows Bayou Mill, Black
slide 222, (unmarked Stevens photo) (2 copies of right card, 1 is
tinted), see 33.02 above
Loud Band Mill, Oscoda & AuSable, prior to fire
*
Solomon, Hayes & Cowley Co built a mill. Dismantled in 1922
Rodman mill cut 55,000 feet annually. Lewis Rodman operated in
spring only, and worked alone. The water wheel is in the front
yard of the Iosco county Historical Museum in East Tawas.
Ref Code
1883Hp190
1880m
1880mc
1880m
1880mc
1880m
1880mc
1880m
1880mc
1880m
1880mc
1880m
1880mc
HAO1p19
HAO1p09
1883Hp170
P&Hp011
1981Hp012
HAO1p09
NSp04
NSp11
NSp02
NSp02
NSp13
TY2p049
P&Hp139
HAO1p30
HAO1p26
HAO1p23
RNHP.10
PC-33.02
PC-33.03
P&Hp114
HAO1p17
1981Hp012
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Category
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Date
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
Lumber-Mill
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
1867-1882
1878
Lumber-River
1878
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
1888
1888
1888
1890-1891
1890s
1891
1900c
1903
1903
Lumber-River
1903
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
1903
1903
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
xxxx
xxxx
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-River
Lumber-Ship
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
39
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
AuSable Lumber Co AuSable MI, sketch of, p180-181
*
Boilers
Engines
Hull & Ely Mill, Oscoda, MI, (the old Tanner Mill), Bradshaw
*
photo,
Interior of Packs, Woods mill
*
Log deck showing long timber & horses
*
Logs sawing capacity given
Long timber decked & ready to be loaded on a rail car
*
Loud was the only company equipped to lumber long timber.
Louds sawmill along the AuSable River
*
Most lumber was seasoned 60-90 before shipping
Sawed lumber stacked & drying along side of a river
*
The burners
The Louds & Sons Co Lumber Mill, AuSable, MI, Band Mill by
*
the Mill St Bridge, before fire, Black slide 220, (5 copies, 2 have
penny stamps)
Number of feet of logs run on the AuSable for each year
The river could normally hold two million feet of logs to the mile,
reported by the editor of the Iosco County Gazette
There was a single logjam on the AuSable River that was 25 miles
long
Rivermen, 5 meals a day
Rivermen, worked 6am – 6pm
Rivermen’s sore feet cured
The River-Lake-Creek Branch of the AuSable, p85-88
River men pose with their peaveys
*
Driving the Pine, p89-91
Wanigan
*
Breaking rollaway at Bamfield, AuSable River, 4/15/1903
*
Jam of logs on sand bar at Allen’s farm, AuSable River,
*
4/16/1903
River men going to work after dinner on the wanigan at Meyers
*
Branch, AuSable River, 4/18/1903
Rivermen breaking jam from spile at Allen’s farm, AuSable River *
Rivermen on AuSable River, looking NE at Gerolomon Junction. *
4/11/1903
30 cribs made a string, flows down river at 6 miles per hour
AuSable River excellent for rafting logs & long timber
Damming, where the normal flow of a stream is insufficient to
*
carry the logs
Dead Man’s Bend, 108-110
High Rollways, one of the spots alone the river where timber was *
decked & tipped into the river in the spring
Indian Island, AuSable River, Wanigan in foreground
*
Picture of men floating logs on the river
River Drivers
Rivermen in boat
*
Solid log jam
*
Rafting chain, 1.5” links, 32 feet long
Ref Code
1883Hp180
1883Hp186
1883Hp186
PC-33.04
P&Hp008
P&Hp047
TY2p053
P&Hp044
HAO1p30
TY2p074
HAO1p38
RNHP.02
1883Hp187
PC-33.01
1883Hp190
FS
FS
P&Hp054
P&Hp054
P&Hp059
P&Hp085
TY2p060
P&Hp089
MLMp87
RNHP.05
RNHP.07
RNHP.01
RNHP.04
RNHP.08
P&Hp074
TY2p048
P&Hp090
1981Hp108
P&Hp039
P&Hp107
TY2p108
TY2p061
RNHP.03
P&Hp018
P&Hp070
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Category
Lumber-Ship
Lumber-Ship
Lumber-Ship
Lumber-Ship
Lumber-Train
Lumber-Train
Lumber-Train
Lumber-Train
Lumber-Train
Lumber-Train
Lumber-Train
Date
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
1888-1889
1891
1891
1891
1891
1894
1895
Lumber-Train
1909
Lumber-Train
Lumber-Train
Memories
Memories
Memories
Memories
1911+
xxxx
1800s
1800s
1860s
1875+
Memories
Memories
1876-1911
1890
Memories
Memories
Memories
Memories
Memories
Military
1902+
1905-2002
1906
1922-1995
1930s
Military
Military
Military
1862
1866
1911
Military
1918
Military
1940s
Military
1940s
40
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
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Rafting Gap – Trip to Tawas Bay
Rafting gap crew on logs showing scow and line
*
Rafting gap, AuSable River, showing the cribs made up
*
The Rafting Gap – description
Crew loading railroad car
*
Cow hit & killed by logging train
Loud Co ran 7 log trains daily
Pott’s log train pulling out of the Russel car station
*
Working on the Logger, p92-96
Working on the Logger – “That Dammed Trip.” p97-100
Hardwoods had to move from the woods by railway, as they will
not float in the river.
Dam on river. Shows logging operation, train, etc. postmarked
*
Oct 4, 1909, (2 copies, 1 is a photo of postcard)
Horse rides on flat car
AS&N RR train full of logs for Loud’s sawmill
*
Little Johnny & the Arm Load of Wood, by Sandra Manning,
Oscoda When I was Young, by Marvel Ellis Stickney
Memories of AuSable & Oscoda, by Lucy Mead
Letter To Matilda Letter to Matilda, by Alice Annand McMahon
Give a glimpse of life in 1875-1880
Recollections by A J Bradshaw
My Memories of the Barter System as a Boy, by Gerson Mark
Kahn
Recollections of Andrew & Harry Affelt
Recollections by Wilhelmena Vaughan Burkhart
Historical Sketch of Oscoda & AuSable by Harry R Soloman.
By Milton F Amley
Oscoda When I was Young, by Marvel Ellis Stickney, p99-100
Mary MacKenzie was awarded a merit badge for “Women of the
War” for help in a woman’s organization during the SpanishAmerican War
52 men of military age
Widow’s pension $96.00 per annum
Soldiers Relieving the Fire Sufferers, Oscoda & AuSable, MI, July *
11, 1911, photo: B&S No.6, soldiers & people at a distance, with
tents in trees, Blue slide #883
Roy Tremain of AuSable severed in WW-1 in Russia, was in the
*
Polar Bear unit
Our Boys, Oscoda, MI, WWII Servicemen sitting on steps of town *
hall, (5 copies), (Notes on backs: l-r, top row: Chauncy McLean,
Otto Peppel, Lloyd McCuaig, Harry “Rip” Masterson, Renaldo
Trigger, Harold Trigger, Billy Haglund; middle row: Brown,
Eddie Christenson, Eddie Close, Benton Marks, Edward Bertrand,
Jim “Butch” Masterson, Jerry Marks, Bill Swenson, Edward
Couture; front row: Lloyd Blakeley, Bob Lynch)
Our Boys, Oscoda, MI, WWII Servicemen standing on steps of
*
town hall, (3 copies), (Note on back: Ed Brown, Cliff McLean,
Bill Haglund, ?? Boy, Harry Masterson, Chauncey Tate, Lloyd
Blakeley, Ed Christeson, Ed Close, Renaldo Trigger Benton
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HAO1p30
PC-34.01
P&Hp134
TY2p046
SHp73
CAHp29
CAHp11
LBp016
LBp099
CAHp93
LBp096
LBp100
TTRp13
TTRp85-96
1981Hp099
1981Hp265
TY2p079
JOWJp09
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1981Hp310
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Category
Date
Military
2004
Military
2004
Military
Military
Military
Military
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Misc
Monuments
Monuments
1903
1930s
1930s
Monuments
1930s
Monuments
Monuments
1932
1932
Monuments
1932-1980s
Monuments
1940s
Monuments
1940s
Monuments
1940s
Monuments
1940s
Monuments
1940s
Monuments
Monuments
1950+
1950+
Monuments
1950+
Monuments
1950+
Monuments
Monuments
Monuments
Monuments
Monuments
Museum
Museum
1965
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
1999
2004
Newspapers
Newspapers
1877+
1877+
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* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Marks, Ed Bertrand, Jim Masterson, Ed Couture, Jerry Marks,
Bill Swenson, Lynch Boy (Bob), Harold Trigger, Lloyd McCuaig,
[order unknown])
Civil War, Grand Army of The Republic Museum & Library web
site (www.garmuslib.org>.
Civil War, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War web site
<www.suvcw.org>.
Civil War veterans
*
Grand Army of the Republic, Posts & names of members
The call to the colors, p78-80
The Sons of Veterans organization flourished in Oscoda, named
the Edwin F Holmes Camp
Jobless men tenting at Wakefield Edy, AuSable River, 5/12/1903
*
Lumberman’s Monument, Oscoda, MI, #36973, up close, no trees *
Lumbermen’s Monument, Near Oscoda, MI, #36974, up close, no *
trees
Pioneer Lumbermen’s Memorial on the AuSable, up close, no
*
trees
Lumbermen’s Monument dedicated, Bronze 9’ statue
*
Lumbermen’s Monument, up close, no trees, copyright 1932, (2
*
copies)
Lumbermen’s Monument, Bronze 9’ statue. 180-200,000 visitors
*
yearly
Lumberman\s Memorial on the AuSable, Oscoda, MI, distance,
*
tiny trees
Lumberman’s Memorial on the AuSable, Oscoda, MI, distance,
*
tiny trees, flag
Lumbermen’s Monument, up close, medium high trees, (color),
*
L.L. Cook Co.
Lumbermen’s Monument, up close, medium high trees, (color),
*
L.L. Cook Co.
Pioneer Lumbermen’s Memorial on the AuSable, Oscoda, MI
*
distance, tiny trees
Aerial view Lumbermen’s Monument, (color)
*
Lumbermen’s Monument, middle distance, tall trees, L.L. Cook
*
Co. (color)
Lumbermen’s Monument, middle distance, tall trees, Penrod
*
photo, (color)
The Lumbermen’s Monument, John Penrod photo, distance, tall
*
trees, Blue slide 864, (color)
The History of the Canoe Monument
*
Canoe Monument, (color)
*
Canoe Monument, Blue slide 866, (color)
*
MI Canoe Racing Ass’n Memorial Monument, (color)
*
The AuSable At Lumberman’s Monument MI (E-1125)
*
AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society opened the first museum
Virtual Tour of the Museum Exhibits on CD. Also includes list of
names of about 1,200 persons appearing in the museum exhibits.
Brief description given
The AuSable-Oscoda Newspapers, p75-77: 1877-1883 The
Ref Code
Internet
Internet
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TY2p079
TY2p078
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PC-35.01
1981Hp013
PC-35.02
1981Hp013
PC-35.05
PC-35.06
PC-35.11
PC-35.12
PC-35.07
PC-35.13
PC-35.10
PC-35.09
PC-35.08
1981Hp112
PC-35.14
PC-35.16
PC-35.15
PC-04.08
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VT
HAO2p18
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Category
Date
Newspapers
1880s
Newspapers
Newspapers
Newspapers
Newspapers
People
1916
1940s
1978
xxxx
xxxx
People
xxxx
Pioneers
1840s
Pioneers
Pioneers
1840s
1848-1849
Pioneers
Pioneers
Pioneers
Pioneers
Political
Political
Political
Political
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
1868
1888
1902-1916
xxxx
Population
Population
Population
Population
Population
Population
Population
Population
1884
1885-1890
1885-1890
1890
1900
1911
1911
1919
Population
Population
Population
Post Offices
Post Offices
1940
1970
1987
1848+
1850s
Post Offices
Post Offices
1857
1857
Post Offices
1857
42
* = photo/sketch ↓
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AuSable & Oscoda News; 1883-1893 The Saturday Night
(formerly The AuSable & Oscoda News); 1884-1895 The
Lakeside Monitor; 1893-current The Oscoda Press (formerly The
Saturday Night).
Every issue of The Lakeside Monitor was good for a laugh, and a
libel suit.
Miss Edna M Otis became editor of the Gazette, p104-106
*
Edna M Otis, editor Iosco County Gazette
*
The Wilber News, p126-127
An artist rendering of a weekly newspaper office
*
See over 840,000 names indexed by the Huron Shores
Genealogical Society.
Virtual Tour of the Museum Exhibits on CD. Also includes list of
names of about 1,200 persons appearing in the museum exhibits.
Previous to 1848 Curtis Emerson, James Eldridge & Capt
Benjamin F Pierce settled on the AuSable River banks
Seven early settlers named, also others named
Before 1848, Benjamin F Pierce had a trading post. Lots marked
off in 1949 from the trading post. First 7 buyers named. Growth
of area started after the Civil War, lumber was needed to rebuild
the south & the westward migration.
7 original purchasers of lots in AuSable Village
A pioneer women
Earliest settlers mentioned
First residents, p163-164
Republican party of Iosco Co organized
Bill to incorporate AuSable & Oscoda was defeated
Congressman George Alvin Loud, 10th MI District
*
AuSable & Oscoda citizens served in the MI legislature are
named
5,804 people in AuSable-Oscoda
11,000+ in AuSable-Oscoda
AuSable & Oscoda grew to over 12,000
Population of AuSable & Oscoda was 6,000+
Population of AuSable & Oscoda was 2,000+
1,800 in AuSable-Oscoda before fire
800 in AuSable-Oscoda after the fire
Only 30 buildings in town & most were fisherman, previous
population was over 5,000
Oscoda population of 731
6,932 in Wurtsmith
4,005 in AuSable-Oscoda
AuSable Oscoda US Post Office
Mail carried from Saginaw to mackinaw City by Indians on sleds
drawn by dogs
Established in AuSable, p164-165
Prior this date mail was addresses to Bay City or Tawas &
brought to AuSable & Oscoda by fishing boats in season & by
dog-sled with a Indian driver in the winter.
Started in AuSable
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Post Offices
Date
1866
Post Offices
Post Offices
Post Offices
Post Offices
Post Offices
Post Offices
Post Offices
Post Offices
Post Offices
Post Offices
Post Offices
1871-1883
1876
1877
1880
1880
1880
1880
1911
1911
1911
1981
Religion
1634
Religion
Religion
1846-1980s
1861
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
1861-1980s
1866-1981
1867
1867
1867+
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
1869
1870
1870
1874
1874
1874
1874-1875
1875
1875
1877-1944
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
1878
1878
1879
1879-1980s
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1886
1895+
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th
April 9 , 3 mail bags was carried by foot through 5 miles of the
AuGres Swamp, it was impassable for hoses.
AuSable Post Office, serviced by stage coaches, then by railroads
Name AuSable changed to Oscoda
AuSable Post Office was re-established
AuSable Post Office, map item #5
*
AuSable Post Office, map item #5
*
Oscoda Post Office, map item #4
*
Oscoda Post Office, map item #4
*
AuSable PO ceased after the fire
AuSable Post Office was discontinued
The Cooke dam building site had a school & post office
Oscoda customers. 2,177 city mail; 1,711 rural mail; 365 PO
boxes & 369 trough branches
Jesuits (black robes) were also known to frequent the area. Burial
sites have been found along the AuSable River
The Oscoda Indian Mission
*
Rev J P Merchant of the Methodist church in Harrisville made the
1st service in AuSable in a home in AuSable
Oscoda United Methodist Church
*
Sacred Heart Parish, p90-91
First church built in AuSable
Methodist church built in AuSable, influenced by Henry M Loud
Other denominations: Baptist, Presbyterians, Episcopalian.
Catholic, German Lutherans, & a Jewish synagogue
Sacred Heath Church established, visiting priest
Catholic church built in AuSable
Presbyterian Church formed
Hebrew congregation
Indian Mission churches built at Pinconning & Saganing
Methodist Church in AuSable built at a cost of $12,000
Catholic church erected, along with a school
First residence Catholic Priest in AuSable
Oscoda Catholic church dedicated
Mores Mark, a Jewish merchant in Oscoda died 1944, buried
beside his wife in the Jewish cemetery in Bay City
Indian church built 12 miles N of Oscoda
Methodist Church established, described in detail, p174-176
P. E. Church
StJohn’s Episcopal Church, AuSable MI, p85-88
*
Catholic Church, map item #11
*
Catholic Church, map item #11
*
Methodist Church, map item #9
*
Methodist Church, map item #9
*
Presbyterian, map item #10
*
Presbyterian, map item #10
*
Priest from Alpena served catholic residents
Episcopal Church I Remember, by Myrtle McKenna Smith &
Jennie Graham Clark
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TY2p067
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1981Hp080
1981Hp090
TY2p019
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TY2p063
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1883Hp168
1981Hp079
TY2p087
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TY2p063
TY2p088
1981Hp251
HAO2p09
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1981Hp085
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Date
1908
Religion
Religion
Religion
1911
1911
1911<
Religion
1911<
Religion
1918
Religion
1921
Religion
1947
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
1955-1980s
1958-1981
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
1961c
Religion
Religion
Religion
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xxxx
Religion
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Religion
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Religion
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Religion
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Religion
Religion
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Religion
River
xxxx
1634
River
River
1688
1766
River
River
River
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1870
1870s
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Sacred Heart Church, AuSable, MI. Bradshaw Photo, postmarked *
Aug 19, 1908
Methodist Church before fire
*
Sacred Heart Catholic church in AuSable before & after the fire
*
First M.E. Church, AuSable and Oscoda, MI ,Bradshaw Photo,
*
shows church and part of Penoyar/Rosenthal house next door.
Insert show interior of church and organ, 1-cent stamp, postmark
unreadable. (blue slide 893) (2 cards)
M.E. Church, AuSable, MI, Bradshaw photo, shows
*
Penoyar/Rosenthal and Loud mansions next door. (Black slide
258)
Swedish Lutheran Church, Oscoda, MI, shortened steeple,
*
postmarked Aug 30, 1918, (Note on back: Hope Lutheran Church
#6)
Women & children in front of wooden church, (Note on front:
*
Baby Show at M.E. Church, Oscoda, 4-13-1921,
Catholic Church, Oscoda, MI #F271, small church at west end of *
Dwight St., (Note on front: July 15, 1947)
Oscoda Baptist Church described
Trinity Lutheran Church, Oscoda, p94-95
*
Scared Heart Catholic Church
*
United Methodist Church
*
Methodist Church, Oscoda, MI, c1961, new brick church on W
*
Dwight St, Oscoda, MI, (color)
AuSable Methodist Church in AuSable
*
Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church, AuSable and Oscoda MI, Bradshaw
*
Photo, shows exterior and interior view of altar, (blue slides: 888,
889, 8900
Interior of a church with banner: “Tonight We Launch, Where
*
Shall We Anchor?” (Black slide #74)
Lutheran Church, Oscoda, MI Bradshaw Photo, full steeple,
*
(Hope Lutheran)
M.E. Church, Oscoda, MI, front view frame church on west
*
Dwight St.
M.E. Methodist Church on Dwight St., Oscoda, shows east side of *
frame church
Oscoda Indian Mission
Sacred Heart, Oscoda, MI, new brick Catholic Church, US-23 by *
F-41, shows statue Sacred Heart in front (color).
The Churches
AuSable River was named by Jean Nicolete, a French voyageur
(fur trader) and explorer, meaning "in sand"
AuSable River first described by
The first writing of the AuSable River was by a French Army
officer on his way to Fort MIilimackinac remarking "how the
sandy mouth stood our from the shore line"
General description of use for lumbering
Mouth of the AuSable River & Backus Bros Lumber Mill
*
Mouth of the AuSable, Backus Bros Lumber Mill
*
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PC-39.07
PC-12.01
1981Hp079
1981Hp094
BWP.08
BWP.09
PC-12.12
TY2p064
1883Hp176
PC-12.07
PC-12.04
PC-12.08
PC-12.09
PC-12.10
1883Hp176
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TY2p063
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River
River
River
River
River
Date
1873
1880s
1884c
1906
1906
1911
River
River
River
1911+
1911-1924
1915
River
River
River
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River
River
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River
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River
River
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River
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River
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River
River
River
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River
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* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
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Finest lumbering stream in the state
Poem, Ole River Jack’s Pipe Dream, by George H Connors
Mouth of the AuSable River (looking E to Lake Huron)
*
Houseboat, float downriver from Mio to Oscoda, 6 miles/hour
Houseboat, with the Ellis family onboard
*
View From The High Banks AuSable River MI, Bradshaw photo,
*
postmarked 1911
Burned piling at mouth of AuSable River
From Mio Dam to Foote Dam the river fall of 363.2 feet
A Scene Near Oscoda MI, geese on sandbar in river, 1 cent
*
postage, postmarked 1915, Affelt photo
WPA built jetties at the mouth, sketch
WPA crew made new pilings at mouth of AuSable River
WPA crew made new pilings at mouth of AuSable River
*
AuSable River mouth frozen, used dynamite to open channel
*
New steel piling at mouth of AuSable River
A Beautiful Scene At Oscoda MI, AuSable River, Stevens Photo,
*
(Note on back: before dam made erosion)
A Trip down the AuSable River, canoe, (blue slide #875)
*
AuSable River Below The Rapids, Stevens Photo, postmark
*
unclear.
AuSable River MI
*
AuSable River MI (Note on back: Wilber Creek), (2 copies, one
*
says: Stevens photo)
AuSable River MI, (2 copies, one tinted slightly)
*
AuSable River MI, (Note on back: tinted by Marvel [Stickney])
*
AuSable River MI, tinted
*
AuSable River MI, Wilber Creek, Wilber Creek indicated with x
*
AuSable River mouth, looking east from US-23 bridge, boats,
*
color
AuSable River- This lovely waterway is a favorite with canoe
*
enthusiasts and fisherman, color.
AuSable River, historical background
AuSable River, Oscoda, MI, looking west, water tower at end of
*
Dwight St, (black slide #159), (3 copies)
AuSable River, Scene At The Stewart Farm, Bradshaw Photo
*
(Blue Slide #877).
Bamfield’s crossing
Early History of the AuSable River, p1-7
East Branch AuSable River, large group of elementary age school *
children in water & on bank,
Fresh Snowfall, Sparkling River, (Blue Slide #852) color
*
High Bank Above Flat Rock, AuSable River, MI. Stevens photo,
*
rollways
High Banks Of The AuSable River, Oscoda, MI,
*
Horse Shoe Island AuSable River MI
*
Island in the river, color, (Blue Slide #865).
*
Marina looking west from US-23 bridge, AuSable River, Oscoda
*
(blue slide #859), fishing boats, color
Mouth of the AuSable River, Oscoda MI (#N978) looking west,
*
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LSAFp052
LSAFp051
LSAFp050
PC-04.17
PC-05.06
PC-04.15
PC-04.04
PC-04.12
PC-04.16
PC-04.18
PC-04.19
PC-04.05
PC-05.16
PC-04.20
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PC-04.14
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River
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River
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US-23, fishermen
Mouth of the AuSable River, Oscoda MI, (#982), looking east,
*
lighthouse, boat, fishermen, parking lot, (#N982), postmarked Jul
5, 1950
Mud-au-be-ton-onge was the Indian name of the AuSable River
Ox Bow Bend AuSable River, AuSable MI
*
Pott’s Point & AuSable River mouth
*
Results Of High Water At Colbath’s Fishery AuSable MI.
*
Damaged building.
Results of high water AuSable MI. Damaged building, 2 fishing
*
boats and schooner beached
River
*
River
*
River
*
Rollways Camp, AuSable River, Hale MI, Huron National Forest *
(#33), windlass
Sailboats line the AuSable River mouth
Sand bar at AuSable River’s mouth, cleaned by the fisherman all
season
Sheltered Cove, color
*
Speed Boat Riding on the AuSable River, Oscoda, MI (#N1125),
*
looking east to mouth of rive, US-23 bridge, Seaman’s Fish
Market, 3 fishing boats
Spring at Rollway Camp, AuSable River, MI (#9)
*
The AuSable At Lumberman’s Monument MI (E-1125)
*
The AuSable At Rollway Camp, Hale MI (#3693).
*
The AuSable River ran 6 miles per hour before the dams
The AuSable, Oscoda MI
*
The AuSable, Oscoda, MI, (#36978).
*
The Beautiful AuSable.The unspoiled beauty of the AuSable is
*
unsurpassed from Grayling to Oscoda. Some 240 lovely river
miles, 3 canoes, color
The Ellen C—AuSable River Boat, boarded at the Five Channels
*
Dam on Highway M 65.precursor of the River Queen
The Famous AuSable River, color
*
The high banks of the AuSable River near Lumberman’s
*
Monument in Huron National Forest MI, c1958, color
The Mouth of the AuSable, Oscoda, MI (#3699), looking east,
*
lighthouse, fishing boat or crash boat (black slide #164)
The Spring at Bissonette’s Camp, Cooke Dam, AuSable River, MI, *
windlass
The Well at Roll a ways, on the AuSable River, Lumberman’s
*
Monument, Oscoda County, MI, Lou Kramer Photo (this is Iosco
County). Tourists getting water bucket up
The Windlass at the spring, Rollway Camp, AuSable River, MI
*
(#10) windlass
Two Marathon Canoe Racers passing the Island at Five Channels *
Dam in the AuSable River, in Huron National Forest, MI c1957
View At The Indian Island AuSable River MI, Bradshaw Photo
*
(Blue slide #876)
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Category
River
Date
xxxx
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
1945+
1950
1950s
1950s
1950s
1966
1966+
1966+
1989
1992
xxxx
River Queens
River Queens
River Queens
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
River Queens
xxxx
Road
Roads
1917
1839
Roads
Roads
Roads
Roads
Roads
Roads
Roads
Salt
Salt
Salt
1870s
1871-1883
1879
1879
1883
1885-1886
xxxx
1870s
1875
1875
Salt
Salt
1876
1876-1877
Salt
1877-1894
Salt
Salt
1878
1879
Salt
1882
Salt
Salt
1882
xxxx
Salt
xxxx
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Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Wilderness Waterway, the lure and enchantment of unspoiled
*
waters beckons visitors to relax, color
The AuSable River Queens, p110-111
*
River Queen I
*
River Queen I
*
River Queen I
*
Work on the hull of River Queen
*
River Queen II got started
Paddle wheel & Howard “Skipper” Brubaker
*
River Queen II, sketch
*
River Queen I, taken out of use
River Queen I, sold 1992 to Genesee Co Parks
(on front: Lumbermen\s Monument, Oscoda, MI), River Queen,
*
AuSable River between Five channels Dam & Lumberman’s
Monument, L.L. Cook Co
AuSable River Queen II, at Foot Pond, (has 9-cent stamp)
*
AuSable River Queen II, Blue slide 860, flying American flag
*
River Queen Between Five Channels Dam and Lumbermen’s
*
Monument, shows dam behind boat
The Ellen C –AuSable River Boat, boards at Five Channels Dam,
*
pre-dates River Queens
MI Road Law eliminated the “Pathmaster”
State Road Survey, Saginaw to Mackinac Surveying of a State
Military Road from Saginaw to Mackinac, by B O Williams
Early stage lines & railroads
First stage line operated by J E Wiley, Standish to Alpena
Early stage lines
Shore stage, AuSable to Standish
Green stage-coach between AuSable & Alpena
Tote road from Oscoda to Otsego Lake, a winter trip
Tote Roads, p126-127
Most ship by boat, as railway did not come until 1884
First attempt to bore for brine by Smith, Kelley & Dwight
The first brine well was sunk for the production and sale of salt.
Two grades were produced and sold all over the county
Loud built a large salt block, destroyed by fire 1877
Loud, Gay & Co drilled 2 wells, had 2,000 barrels of salt to ship
in 1877
Pack, Woods & Co built a mill & salt block: George W Pack,
John L Woods & Edwin Holmes, operated until 1894, p23-26
State fair competition against other producers, 2 grades of salt
Pack, Woods & Co started in 1879, had 6 wells, & in 1880 had
53,460 barrels for sale.
Gratwick, Smith & Fryer built salt block, pumped brine fro, East
Tawas through large wooden pipes.
Gratwick, Smith & Fryer drill wells
First well 960 feet, enough brine for 70 barrel of salt each day:
Smith, Kelley & Dwight
Potts Salt & Lumber Co had 4 salt blocks and obtained brine
through wooded pines from East Tawas from 4 wells of the Iosco
Ref Code
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1981Hp110
ARQp15
ARQp23
ARQp27
ARQp13
ARQp15
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ARQp17
ARQp34
ARQp34
PC-41.02
PC-41.05
PC-41.04
PC-41.03
PC-41.01
G1999/02p4
LBp001
LBp025
TY2p065
LBp025
LBp025
LBp026
P&Hp022
1981Hp126
HAO1p36
TY2p088
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TY2p049
HAO1p32
HAO1p23
HAO1p35
HAO1p33
TY2p051
HAO1p34
HAO1p32
HAO1p35
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Date
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
1864
1864
1864
1864+
1864-1865
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
1865
1865
1865
1866
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
1870
1870s
1876
1877
1877
1880
1880
1883
1883
1908
Schools
1910
Schools
1910
Schools
1910
Schools
1910s
Schools
Schools
1911
1911
Schools
1911
Schools
1911
Schools
Schools
1911
1914
48
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Brine Supply & Salt Co, about a mile NE of East Tawas.
First AuSable School, taught by Mrs Hor in a private house
First teaching in AuSable
School in AuSable when Mrs Hor gave instructions in her home
AuSable-Oscoda Area Schools described, p55-57
AuSable, school 1st taught by Mrs Hor. First school house built
1865
First school built in AuSable
First school house built in AuSable
First schoolhouse was built
AuSable votes to build a $1,500 schoolhouse, not less thrab 39 x
50 x24 feet.
Oscoda, 1st school built
A Sabbath-School
Catholic Church in AuSable established a school
AuSable schools were graded
Oscoda. Schools were graded
Map items # 1, 2 & 3
*
Map items # 1, 2 & 3
*
Oscoda. 2 schools
Oscoda. Students enrolled 377, average attendance 233
School Buildings at Oscoda, MI, Old wooden buildings: High
*
School Dept., Intermediate Dept., Primary Dept. Bradshaw
Photo., postmarked Jan 22, 1908,
Iosco County Teachers’ Assn. Held at AuSable, April 29, 30,
*
1910, Bradshaw photo,
Teacher & group of kids, (Note on back: 1910, Blanche Hennigar, *
2nd from left, back row), (2 copies)
The Business Institute Baseball Team, July 4, 1910, 10 men and a *
boy, place for 1 cent stamp
Adams Ave (River Rd), Oscoda, MI, Bradshaw photo, River Road *
looking W, shows old primary school on right, (3 copies)
AuSable’s Common School survived the fire
Before the fire AuSable had a high school and an elementary
school.
Edna Young & Julius Zeller taught 95 students in grades 1-8 in a
*
tar paper shanty school near Loud Dam
Oscoda has a high school (same location as now) and an
elementary school in Pack Town
The Cooke dam building site had a school & post office
Teacher & Class by school building, (Note on front: 1914), (Note *
on back: 1 Sam Gardner, 2 Roland Hibner, 3 Glen Tate, 4 Francis
Burke, 5 Claude McDonald, 6 James Barlow, 7 Donald
Dickenson, 8 Allan Mitchell, 9 Jack Caniff, 10 Miss Edna Young
teacher, 11 Glen McDonald, 12 Angeline Merkel, 13 Furtaw, 14
Cecilin Potts, 15 ?, 16 Dorothy Damerau, 17 ?, 18 Loretta
Bertrand, 19 Maud Thornton, 20 Gertrude Damerau, 21 Helen
Markham, 22 ?, 23 Jessie Lee, 24 Marguerite Markham, 25 Grace
Weston, 26 Blanche Hennigar, 27 Gertrude Marks, 28 Mina
Vaughan), (3 copies), Black slide 72 & 73
Ref Code
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1883Hp177
1883Hp175
1981hP055
1883Hp165
1883Hp177
1880m
1880mc
1883Hp177
1883Hp177
PC-15.01
PC-38.03
PC-38.01
PC-07.08
PC-43.04
1981Hp056
HAO2p08
1981Hp325
HAO2p08
P&Hp122
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Category
Schools
Schools
Date
1918
1919-1920
Schools
1920
Schools
1921+
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
1921+
1921+
1921+
1921+
Schools
Schools
Schools
1938
1943
1946
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
1952
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
1962
1962
1964
1968
1970s
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
1971
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Schools
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
xxxx
1679
1679+
1842
1863
1865
1869
1870
1870
1870+
1872
1872
1872
1872
1872
1872
1872
1874
1875
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P
No more schools in AuSable Township
3 old schools in Oscoda sold & moved & new school built on
same location. Grades K-12 for both AuSable & Oscoda students.
School House, Oscoda, MI., Old wooden primary dept building,
*
(Note on back: 1st grade thru 6th grad, Oscoda, Torn down 1920,
replaced in 1921) (2 copies)
High School, Oscoda, MI, #S-328, new brick building, view from *
NE, (2 copies)
High School, Oscoda, MI, new brick building, view from NE
*
High School, Oscoda, MI, new brick building, view from SE
*
High School, Oscoda, MI, new brick building, view from SE
*
Oscoda High School, new brick building, view from SE,
*
playground in foreground,
Cafeteria & Gym added to the north of the school built 1919-1920
Extension added to the south of the school
First Teacher Exchange of 75 teachers with Great Britain: Ann
*
Solomon of Oscoda went to Wales, p132-135.
Cedar Lake Elementary School completed
Oscoda Elementary
*
Oscoda High School
*
New school built 3 mile W of Oscoda on River Rd
The County Line School added
River Road Elementary completed
4 re-locatable class rooms added to the new Oscoda school
7 buildings, 4,000 students from Glennie, Mikado, Wilbur,
AuSable & Oscoda
4 re-locatable class rooms added to County Line School
AuSable School
*
Elementary School, Oscoda, MI, #3A481
*
High School Building, Oscoda, MI, new brick building from River *
Rd
The Schools, p68-70
GRIFFIN, first ship to sail the Great Lakes
Ships Information chart
REINDEER
WATER WITCH
PEWABIC
EUREKA
ERMA B REEVES
KITTY REEVES
36 shipwrecks
A LINCOLN
Aftermath of the September 1872 storm
DETROIT
HUNTER
SUMMIT
The September 29-30 storm, 7 vessels sank
WHITE SQUALL
ATLANTA
WAYNE
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1981Hp056
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1981Hp132
1981Hp056
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BWP.10
1981Hp056
1981Hp056
1981Hp056
1981Hp006
1981Hp057
1981Hp056
TY2p070
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SWp03
SWp60
SWp06
SWp07
SWp09
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SWp11
LBp004
SWp13
SWp14
SWp12
SWp12
SWp11
SWp11
SWp14
SWp16
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Category
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Date
1880
1880
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
Societies-Clubs
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880s
1880s
1881
1882
1885
1885
1887
1888
1888
1889
1889
1889
1893
1894
1895
1896
1898
1898
1901
1901
1901
1901
1903
1903
1905
1906
1906
1910
1911
1913
1913
1920
1924
1924
1931
1932
1934
1934
1937
1939
1966
1867
50
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P
ANTHENIUM
CHISS GROVER ground in storm of Apr 16 1880; Several rescue
attempts described, p170-171
CHRIS GROVER Tragedy, p90-93
*
CHRISS GROVER Wreck of & death of John W Glennie
CRISS GROVER
Terrible spring storm blew in April 15 1880
Captains of grounded ships often open sea-cocks to sink the ship
L.S.S. beach apparatus & breeches buoy
WILLIAM B OGDEN
PRINDILLE
JAMES C HARRISON
SUSAN WARD
W A SHERMAN
BANNER
GEORGE HAND
JANE MASON
MEARS
MIDNIGHT
O WILCOX
*
JOHN SHAW
PETREL
VOLUNTEER
E F GOULD
GEORGE STEELE
BALTIMORE
*
Sinking of the BALTIMORE
*
Sinking of the BALTIMORE
THOMAS P SHELDON
Sunken ship with cooper ingots is off AuSable’s Shore
Treasure search off AuSable
OLGA
MARY E PIERCE
*
WAWANOSH, windlass & anchors
*
FRANK H GOODYEAR
*
NAIAD
*
Most disastrous storm on the Great Lakes, Nov 1913, for 5 days
Storm of hurricane force, lost 8 ships & 178 men
GOSHAWK
CLIFTON, a whaleback
*
SAMUEL MATHER, a whaleback
*
LANGELL BOYS,
*
HERCULES
DUDLEY
GERALSINE
B H BECKER
ORIOLE, propeller & net anchors
*
DANIEL J MORRELL
*
Masonic lodge
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LSAFp031
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SWp49
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SWp51
SWp51
SWp56
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SWp58
1883Hp165
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Category
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Date
1870
1870-1875
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
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1876
1876
1878
1879
1879
1880
1880
1882
1882
1915
1915
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
Societies-Clubs
1917
1920-1930s
1920s-1950s
1924
Societies-Clubs
1936
Societies-Clubs
1936
Societies-Clubs
1936
Societies-Clubs
Sports
Sports
Sports
Sports
Sports
xxxx
Sports
1908
Sports
1909
Sports
1910
Sports
1912
1870s
1870s
1881
1904
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* = photo/sketch ↓
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Odd Fellows organized
AuSable Caledonian Club, Scotch residents, held yearly games &
sports
A Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was organized
Excelsior Lodge of Good Templars was organized
The Red Ribbon movement was organized
Royal Arcanum organized
Knights of Honor was organized
Royal Templars of Temperance was organized
Iosco Domestic & Temperance Hall, map item #7
*
Iosco Domestic & Temperance Hall, map item #7
*
Ancient Order of United Workingmen (A.O.U.W.) organized
Knights of Saint John
Camp Nissokone mess tent
*
Mess Tent, YMCA, Van Etten Lake, 1915, Oscoda, MI (also see 36 *
– Nissokone)
YMCA’s Camp Nissokone
The Aquarium, Camp Nissokone, Oscoda, MI,
*
Boys Scout Cabin, Scouts active in AuSable & Oscoda, p130-131
Boy’s Boat House, Detroit YMCA, Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI,
*
No.8, postmarked Jul 4, 1924
Detroit YMCA, Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI,, No.2, Black slide
*
202, (Note on back: 1936)
Nissokone, Philip H. Gray Camp for Boys, Detroit YMCA, Van
*
Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI, aerial view, Black slide 205, (Note on
back: 1936)
Nissokone, Philip H. Gray Camp for Boys, Detroit YMCA, Van
*
Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI, shows tower & meeting hall, Black slide
207, (Note on back: 1936)
Camp Nissokone, Detroit YMCA at VanEtten Lake, Oscoda
*
Fishing and hunting shown in separate catagories
Baseball Tawas team of 9 is named on p58
*
Baseball, p56-59
The AuSable & Oscoda Driving Park Association
Iosco Baseball Team, 11 men, a boy & a dog, July 1904, calls for *
1 cent stamp, (Note on back: from left: back row: Ralph Batten,
Ray Alexander, Herb Walker, Fitzsimmons. middle row: Chet
Blakely, Glen Dakin, Geo Colby Lou Mace. front row: “Pat”,
Bruce Loud, Jim McBride, Roy McGlachlin, Harry Loud)
AuSable, Aug 22,1908, Baseball team, man with law enforcement *
badge, place for 1 cent stamp, (black slide 102), (3 copies)
Girls’ Basketball Team, O.H.S. 1909, 8 girls & woman, Bradshaw *
photos 1909, (corner torn off)
The Business Institute Baseball Team, July 4, 1910, 10 men and a *
boy, place for 1 cent stamp
Iosco Co. Champions of 1912, Oscoda High School Ball Team, 10 *
people, (named on back: “Dutch” Zelmar, coach; Hugh Adair,
short stop; Jerry Marks, 3rd base; Willis Densore, outfield; Carl
Anderson, 1st base; Benton Marks, outfield; Louis “Chewy”
Berry, pitcher; Oscar Swanson, 2nd base; Harry McKenna,
Ref Code
1883Hp176
TY2p088
1883Hp176
1883Hp176
1883Hp176
1883Hp177
1883Hp176
1883Hp176
1880m
1880mc
1883Hp177
1883Hp177
SHp54
PC-39.06
CAHp90
PC-36.01
1981Hp130
PC-36.04
PC-36.05
PC-36.02
PC-36.03
SHp39
TY2p056
TY2p056
1883Hp179
PC-07.03
PC-07.07
PC-08.04
PC-07.08
PC-07.05
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Category
Date
Sports
1913
Sports
1913
Sports
1913
Sports
1913
Sports
Sports
Sports
Sports
Sports
Sports
1950
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Sports
xxxx
Sports
xxxx
Sports
xxxx
Time
Tourists
1885
1894
Tourists
1911
Tourists
1911
Tourists
1915
Tourists
1920+
Tourists
Tourists
1920+
1920+
Tourists
Tourists
1920+
1921
Tourists
1923
Tourists
1924
52
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
catcher; Lloyd Soucie, outfield)
Boys’ Basketball Team, O.H.S. 1913, 6 boys & coach, (Note on
*
back: Hugh Adair; Jerry Marks; Claude Yockey; Lloyd Blakeley,
coach; Lloyd Densmore; Harry McKenna; Harold Trigger)
Girls’ Basketball Team, O.H.S. 1913, 8 girls (same girls in 8.01,
*
8.02, 8.03)
Girls’ Basketball Team, O.H.S. 1913, 8 girls (same girls in 8.01,
*
8.02, 8.03)
Girls’ Basketball Team, O.H.S. 1913, 8 girls, (Note on back: Lil
*
Berry, Ethel Hennigar, Hilda Swenson, Marvel Ellis), (same girls
in 8.01, 8.02, 8.03)
Chief Blue Cloud brought snow to Silver Valley
*
2 Men in dugout canoes
*
Birling matches, also called log rolling
Iosco Baseball Team, 12 men, place for 1 cent stamp
*
Iosco Baseball Team, 15 men, calls for 1 cent stamp
*
Iosco Baseball Team, 9 people (Note on back: Erickson?, Jack
*
Larson, Benton Marks, Cassiday, Clayton Ellis)
Iosco Baseball Team; 14 men & a boy, calls for 1 cent stamp,
*
(Note: Vern Sharkey, Ralph Sharkey, Dan Mc Cuaig, Alexander,
Bolton?, Herb Walker?, Blakeley?, Presby. Preacher, Len Mace?,
George Colby, Glen Dawn?, Brewster Loud, Will Simmons?,
Harry? Loud, Water Boy)
On the Tennis court at Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda, MI,
*
Chereton photo, (half of post card)
Two Men, Oscoda High School Shirts, possibly wrestlers, (Note
*
on back: Dave Hennigar, Carl Anderson)
Standard time first established
Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI, shows trees & lake, (Note on front:
*
1894, only 4 cottages on Van Etten Lake), 1 cent stamp
Fire destroyed Loud’s mill, the only mill operating, & opened the
area for the hydroelectric industry and tourist trade
Steam Boat Dock, Oscoda, MI, Stevens photo, (end of Mill St)
*
(Note on back: D&C dock before 1911 fire)
Union Steam Boat Dock, July 4, 1915, Oscoda & AuSable, MI,
*
dock at end of River Rd, people walking in toward shore,
steamboat heading north, 2 autos
Old Orchard Park on the AuSable River was developed by
Consumers Power Co.
Oscoda developed into a tourist resort
There is an intangible something about AuSable & Oscoda area.
The Indians sensed it and they said, “He who drinks of the
AuSable shall always return.”
VanEtten lake developed before Cedar Lake
The road through the pines to Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda, MI, *
postmarked Jul 31, 1921
The Float in front of the lodge Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI, Blue *
slide 873, postmarked Jul 5, 1923,
The road to Van Etten Lodge, Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI, Black *
slides 427, 353 & 182, (3 copies, note on back: “Posen’s Bridge”
Ref Code
PC-08.05
PC-08.01
PC-08.03
PC-08.02
1981Hp050
PC-09.07
HAO2p16
PC-07.04
PC-07.02
PC-07.01
PC-07.06
PC-48.09
PC-08.06
LBp074
PC-47.06
HAO1p50
PC-20.08
PC-20.02
HAO1p60
HAO1p57
HAO1p62
HAO1p57
PC-48.17
PC-48.14
PC-48.15
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Category
Date
Tourists
1930s
Tourists
1930s
Tourists
1930s
Tourists
1936
Tourists
Tourists
Tourists
1940s
1940s
1940s
Tourists
1948
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
Tourists
xxxx
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
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* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
over Van Etten Creek, 1924)
Bath Houses – Tourist Park, on Lake Huron, Oscoda, MI, #3693, *
looking E past sign, bath houses and out the length of the dock,
(sign unreadable)
Lake Huron Beach, Oscoda, MI, #E554, side of dock, people in
*
water, trailers, cars & tents on beach, Dwight St water tower in
distance
Tourist Park on Lake Huron, Oscoda, MI, #3694, 2 boys on dock *
looking toward shore at trailer park, houses & water tower, (black
slide 172)
Oscoda Free Tourist Park, Oscoda, MI, looking E past sign,
*
bathhouses & out the length of the dock. (Sign readable), (Note on
back: 1936)
Beach Park
The VanEtten Lake Lodge during WW2, sold
VanEtten Lake, Cedar Lake & Lake Huron’s Shores developed
dramatically with cottages & fine homes
Bath House at Tourist Park, Oscoda, MI, L-1278, postmarked
*
July 30, 1948, 1 cent stamp
“Home of the Fairy Gods”, beautiful ice formation, Lake Huron,
*
Blue slide 900, (3 copies, 1 cut down, 1 bad corner)
5 young men in suits, (studio photo), (Note on back: Harold?
*
“Tumpty” McKenna, Harry “Ripper” Masterson, Oscar “Peanut”
Swenson, George B. “Brownie” Ellis, Jack Tate.), (card cracked
& taped)
6 young men in swimming outfits, (Note on back: l-r: Alex
*
Lasinski, Jack Larson, Bill Haglund, ??, John Haglund, Jack
Tate), ( card cracked & taped)
A Scene along the beach in front of the lodge, Van Etten Lake,
*
Oscoda, MI, Blue slide 901,
A Trip down the AuSable River, canoe, (blue slide #875)
*
Abating of the Storm, AuSable, MI, Blue slide 871, pilings, high
*
waves, possibly mouth of river
AuSable River mouth, looking east from US-23 bridge, boats,
*
color
Bathing Beach, Lake Huron, Oscoda, MI,15 people in water,
*
Black slide 170
Beach at Tourist Park, (almost unreadable), #3696, 4 people on
*
beach, row of benches, Black slide 171, (Note on back: Mary
Gresham sitting left)
Comforts at “The Cedars”, Lake Van Etten, Oscoda, MI, calls for *
1 cent stamp, (2 copies)
Consumers encouraged tourism, allowing public use of their
lands. However since misuse they have precluded some of the
former use.
Dock at Oscoda & AuSable, MI, shows steamboat off end, dark
*
picture (calls for 1 cent stamp)
Great Lake scene with long piece driftwood, bathers in distance,
*
Blue slide 855, (color)
Great Lake scene with waves, Blue slide 856, (color)
*
Ref Code
PC-20.04
PC-20.03
PC-20.05
PC-20.06
WW2p20
WW2p60
WW2p58
PC-30.01
PC-30.07
PC-37.05
PC-37.02
PC-48.10
PC-05.06
PC-30.05
PC-05.16
PC-30.04
PC-30.03
PC-47.03
HAO1p54
PC-20.09
PC-30.10
PC-30.11
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Category
Tourists
Date
xxxx
Tourists
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Tourists
Tourists
Tourists
Tourists
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xxxx
xxxx
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Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
xxxx
Tourists
Tourists
Tourists
Tourists
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Tourists
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Tourists
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Tourists
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Tourists
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Tourists
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Tourists
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Tourists
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Tourists
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Tourists
Tourists
Tourists
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Trans-Auto
Trans-Horse
1905-1906
Trans-Ox
Transp-Auto
1910
Transp-Auto
xxxx
54
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Greetings from Oscoda, MI, 5 bathing beauties, fisherman, etc.,
*
(color)
High Bank Above Flat Rock, AuSable River, MI. Stevens photo,
*
rollways
Lake Huron shoreline, Blue slide 854 (color)
*
Lake Huron, grasses along shore, Blue slide 853, (color)
*
Long Dock & bathers, could be anywhere, color
*
Marina looking west from US-23 bridge, AuSable River, Oscoda
*
(blue slide #859), fishing boats, color
MI’s State Stone, John Penrod photo, Petoskey stone outline of
*
state, Blue slide 851, (color)
Oscoda, MI, Indian Summer, Galloway photo, (color), lady by
*
lake
Oscoda, MI, road & autumn trees, (color)
*
Oscoda, MI, road , water, autumn trees, (color)
*
Oscoda, MI, steamship dock, family group in sand, bathers
*
Rollways Camp, AuSable River, Hale MI, Huron National Forest *
(#33), windlass
Row Boat, Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI,#L1020, rear end of
*
rowboat “Dorothy”, and 2 men & dog in row boat, sail boat
behind
Shore of Lake Huron, Oscoda, MI, Bradshaw photo, waves,
*
shoreline
Speed Boat Riding on the AuSable River, Oscoda, MI (#N1125),
*
looking east to mouth of river, US-23 bridge, Seaman’s Fish
Market, 3 fishing boats
Sunset at Van Etten Lake, Oscoda, MI, Bradshaw photo,
*
houseboat in distance, (calls for 1 cent stamp),
The Beautiful AuSable.The unspoiled beauty of the AuSable is
*
unsurpassed from Grayling to Oscoda. Some 240 lovely river
miles, 3 canoes, color
The Cedars, Lake Van Etten, Oscoda, MI, view of building, (Note *
on back: On Loud Island)
The Ellen C—AuSable River Boat, boarded at the Five Channels
*
Dam on Highway M 65.precursor of the River Queen
The Well at Roll a ways, on the AuSable River, Lumberman’s
*
Monument, Oscoda County, MI, Lou Kramer Photo (this is Iosco
County). Tourists getting water bucket up
Tourist Park, Oscoda, MI, autos, trailers, trees,
*
Van Etten Lake Lodge, Motor Boat, Oscoda, MI, Black slide 191
*
Van Etten Lake Looking North, Oscoda, MI, #A-1703, shows
*
dam & bridge
Auto vs old ox cart
Sleighing, usually 70-125 days per year, on 24 days in 1905 &
1906
Auto vs old ox cart
Elliot House, Oscoda, MI horses & wagons, autos, people.
*
Postmarked 1910, (Note on back: Main St. Oscoda), (blue slide
#887)
Currie House, Oscoda, MI, Stevens Photo, early autos & people,
*
Ref Code
PC-46.03
PC-05.13
PC-30.08
PC-30.09
PC-20.12
PC-05.15
PC-46.05
PC-46.02
PC-46.01
PC-46.04
PC-20.07
PC-05.11
PC-47.10
PC-30.06
PC-05.02
PC-47.09
PC-05.14
PC-47.01
PC-05.18
PC-05.12
PC-30.02
PC-48.16
PC-47.14
G1995/12p4
G1997/01p3
G1995/12p4
PC-13.01
PC-13.03
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Category
Date
Transp-Auto
xxxx
Transp-Dog
1850s
Transp-Foot
1866
Transp-Horse
Transp-Horse
1871
1908
Transp-Horse
1909
Transp-Horse
1910
Transp-Horse
1910
Transp-Horse
1913
Transp-Horse
Transp-Horse
1924
xxxx
Transp-Horse
xxxx
Transp-Horse
Transp-Horse
Transp-Horse
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Transp-Horse
Transp-Horse
Transp-Horse
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Transp-Horse
xxxx
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
1874
1877
1880s
1883
1891
1894
1900
1900
1900s
1900s
Transp-Rail
1902
55
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
(2 copies)
New Arrivals at Van Etten Lake Lodge, Oscoda, MI, Chereton
*
photo, trees & early autos at back of Lodge, Black slide 190, (2
copies)
Mail carried from Saginaw to Mackinaw City by Indians on sleds
drawn by dogs in the winter, and by fishing boats in the summer.
April 9th, 3 mail bags was carried by foot through 5 miles of the
AuGres Swamp, it was impassable for hoses.
Stage between Standish and Alpena started
Team weighing over 2 ton, owned by Loud Co., postmarked April *
15, 1908, (Note on back: This is the largest team in AuSable)
Largest load of logs ever hauled on sleigh by horses, 1909,
*
Blackduck, Minn.
Elliot House, Oscoda, MI horses & wagons, autos, people.
*
Postmarked 1910, (Note on back: Main St. Oscoda), (blue slide
#887)
Scene near Oscoda, MI, horses, men, dog & huge log load,
*
postmarked 1910
Family group with horse & buggy, (Note on front: Old Faithful
*
“Dick” with surrey. 4th of July 1913, Belle Barlow (driving), Mrs
Barlow in back seat, Rev Aaron Mitchell holding horses’ bridle),
postmark unreadable, stamp gone
Runaway Horses
2 children in pony cart on Main St, (Note on back: Ann
*
Christeson & Inez C. in pony cart by bank)
Hauling Logs with Big Wheels, turn of the century, Steiner
*
collection
Horses & men in woods
*
Horses pulling huge log load with men on top, Steiner collection
*
Man on cart of wood with white horse, (Note on back: Mr
*
McKay, Baptist Church & Elliott House in background)
Men & Horses in woods
*
Men & Horses in woods, & a Shack,
*
Old Dan, a white horse, pulled the lumber carts on the trams.
When the mill whistle blew for lunch Old Dan would stop & not
move until he was feed.
Woman in sleigh with horse, (Note on back: Lucille Hennigar; 1- *
26-1909 – date card written), (calls for 1 cent stamp)
Narrow gauge from McKinley & Oscoda
Early railroad in the county made of strap iron rails
See exhibit in the museum
First railroad service, Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railroad
Cow hit & killed by logging train
Detroit & Mackinaw Railway name established & described.
*
Detroit & Mackinac Railway depot & train
*
Detroit & Mackinac Railway schedule
Detroit & Mackinac Railway route
Southeast View of Comins, MI, Early 1900s, (Steiner photo),
*
(Note on back: AS&NW Depot at Comins, MI)
Au Sable & North-Western (AS & NW) Schedule
Ref Code
PC-48.03
1981Hp015
JOWJp14
1981Hp015
PC-32.03
PC-32.09
PC-13.01
PC-32.07
PC-37.28
TTRp81
PC-37.26
PC-32.08
PC-32.05
PC-32.10
PC-37.22
PC-32.02
PC-32.01
HAO2p16
PC-37.25
HAO1p39
1981Hp047
E#10
TY2p065
P&Hp095
1981Hp047
TTRp96
TTRp96
TTRp98
PC-40.03
TTRp25
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Category
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Date
1908
1911
Transp-Rail
1911
Transp-Rail
1911
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
1911
1911
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
1911+
1912
1913
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
1915
1930s
1990s-1920s
xxxx
Transp-Rail
Transp-Rail
xxxx
xxxx
Transp-Rail
xxxx
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
1679-1679
1825
1847
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
1853
1866
1866
1869
1870+
1871
1873
1873-1911
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
1873-1911
1876
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
1876
1876
1876
1880
1880
1880
1880
56
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
William H Ellis on caboose of train
*
A.S.&N.W Engine, Fire of July 11, 1911, Stevens photo, engine
*
tipped over on tracks, postmarked Aug 11, 1911
A.S.&N.W Engines after the Big Fire, July 11, 1911, Wasson
*
photo #3, (2 copies), train engine and cars on side
The Arrival of D&M Train #3 at AuSable after the big Fire July
*
11, 1911, shows depot, crowd & passenger cars, Blue slide #884,
(4 copies), postmarked Aug?, 1911,
Wrecked in fire
*
Wrecked in the Big AuSable & Oscoda Fire, July 11, 1911,
*
Brown photo, train engine and cars on side
AuSable & Northwestern sold to the Detroit & Mackinaw
Log Train, AS&NW RR, (Note on back: 1912)
*
th
Last Trip of the Narrow Gauge, May 7 1915, Oscoda &
*
AuSable, (Note on back: Roy Kennedy in engine, Frank Hebner &
son Roland standing by engine, Billy Ellis leaning against train)
Changed from narrow gauge to standard passenger gauge
Hobos “rode the rails”
William Henry Ellis, worked in lumbering & railroad
*
“En-Route to the Wilderness”, AS&NW RR, AuSable, MI,
*
Bradshaw photo, shows train, tracks and river full of logs,
3 men by train engine
*
North Bound Train at D&M depot, Oscoda & AuSable, MI,
*
Stevens photo, ( 2 copies, 2 cent stamp on one)
The AuSable & Northwestern Railroad was nick named All
Swedes & Norwegians
The GRIFFIN
Erie Canal open, water route from MI to NYC
First pine lumber shipped from Saginaw to NY through the Erie
Canal & Hudson River
First lighthouse on Tawas Point
Dec 9th. Navigation closes up.
Water traffic
Sturgeon Point lighthouse built
See exhibit in the museum
Prior to this it was by boat
AuSable lighthouse built
AuSable Light House was built, with a light of the 5th order
Fresnal Lenses were classified into six orders, one the largest and
6 the smallest
Lighthouse, see exhibit in the museum
AuSable-Oscoda has 4 passenger boats from Saginaw & 2 from
Detroit
Steamer DOVE
*
Tawas Point Life Saving Station began
Tawas Point lighthouse built
AuSable River Light House, map item #8
*
AuSable River Light House, map item #8
*
Barge being towed by a steamer, sketch
Local water traffic
Ref Code
P&Hp006
PC-22.27
PC-22.28
PC-22.30
TTRp52
PC-22.29
P&Hp139
PC-40.01
PC-40.04
WW2p48
1981Hp099
1981Hp189
PC-40.06
PC-40.05
PC-40.02
???
1981Hp130
1981Hp123
1981Hp123
SWp07
JOWJp29
SWp09
SWp11
E#03
TY2p065
SWp11
FS
E#05
SWp16
MIAp048
SWp16
SWp11
1880m
1880mc
SWp20
SWp17
RESEARCH GUIDE TO HISTORIAL AuSABLE-OSCODA, MICHIGAN
Category
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Date
1880
1880
1880s
1880s
1883
1884
1884c
1900
1908
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
1911
1911
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
1911
1911+
1912
Transp-Ship
1915
Transp-Ship
1915
Transp-Ship
1915
Transp-Ship
1915+
Transp-Ship
1930s
Transp-Ship
1936
Transp-Ship
xxxx
Transp-Ship
xxxx
Transp-Ship
xxxx
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
xxxx
xxxx
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
Transp-Ship
xxxx
57
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
Union Steamboat Dock, map item #6
*
Union Steamboat Dock, map item #6
*
Barges were vessels towed by another ship
Log rafts, sketch
s
MI Transportation Co established
Log raft ashore
Steamer (State Of Michigan) docking at AuSable
*
Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co schedule
“City of Alpena” Entering the River at Alpena, MI, 1908,
*
Bradshaw photo , D&C steamboat, Alpena pier head light
Old pier head light
*
Steam Boat Dock, Oscoda, MI, Stevens photo, (end of Mill St)
*
(Note on back: D&C dock before 1911 fire)
THE KONGO, rescued fire refugees
New pier head light
*
Steamer “City of Detroit”, D&C Line at Night, side-wheel
*
steamer, postmarked Jun 27, 1912, on Detroit and Buffalo run,
printed info on back. .(Note on back says she makes her first trip
next week), (calls for 1 cent stamp)
The Arrival of the Home Comers, Oscoda and AuSable, July 4,
*
1915, Crowd of passengers around D&C steamship at dock
Union Steam Boat Dock, July 4, 1915, Oscoda & AuSable, MI,
*
dock at end of River Rd, people walking in toward shore,
steamboat heading north, 2 autos
Union Steam Boat Dock, July 4, 1915, Oscoda & AuSable, MI,
*
shows crowd coming in from dock, steamboat leaving the dock.
Steam Boat Dock, Oscoda, MI, shows long walkway, similar to
*
20.11
Bath Houses – Tourist Park, on Lake Huron, Oscoda, MI, #3693, *
looking E past sign, bath houses and out the length of the dock,
(sign unreadable)
Oscoda Free Tourist Park, Oscoda, MI, looking E past sign,
*
bathhouses & out the length of the dock. (Sign readable), (Note on
back: 1936)
Dock at Oscoda & AuSable, MI, shows steamboat off end, dark
*
picture (calls for 1 cent stamp)
Loading of one of the H.M. Loud’s Sons Co Steamer’s at Oscoda, *
MI, Bradshaw Photo, (calls for 1 cent stamp)
Lumber packer “Seattle,” (Note on back: at Loud Lumber Dock,
*
before fire, Oscoda, MI,) (calls for 1 cent stamp)
Lumber packer fully loaded, “C.A. (or R.) Starke”,
*
Mouth of the AuSable River, Oscoda MI, (#982), looking east,
*
lighthouse, boat, fishermen, parking lot, (#N982), postmarked Jul
5, 1950
Oscoda, MI, steamship dock, family group in sand, bathers
*
See exhibit in the museum
Steamer “City of Alpena” at Oscoda, MI, Stevens photo, (2
*
copies)
Steamer “City of Alpena”, D&C Dock, Oscoda, MI, Stevens
*
photo, side of steamer showing side wheel, horse and wagon,
Ref Code
1880m
1880mc
SWp21
SWp21
1883Hp169
SWp22
NSp20
TTRp57
PC-09.01
LSAFp045
PC-20.08
SWp43
LSAFp044
PC-09.06
PC-26.08
PC-20.02
PC-26.09
PC-20.01
PC-20.04
PC-20.06
PC-20.09
PC-09.04
PC-09.02
PC-09.03
PC-05.05
PC-20.07
E#04
PC-09.05
PC-20.10
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Category
Date
Transp-Ship
Transp-Ship
xxxx
xxxx
Utilities
Utilities
Utilities
Utilities
1877
1940s
1952
xxxx
Utilities
Utilities
xxxx
xxxx
Utilities
Utilities
Vitals
Vitals
Vitals
Weather
Weather
Weather
Weather
Weather
xxxx
xxxx
1867-1950
1867-1950
1879
1873
1884
1900-1929
1908
1909
Weather
Weather
Weather
Weather
Weather
1922
1953
1953
xxxx
xxxx
58
* = photo/sketch ↓
Description (Ship’s names are in upper case letters)
P
crowd at boat
Tugs towing a raft of logs
Union Steam Boat Dock, Oscoda, MI, Stevens photo, similar to
*
20.01, (black slide 175), corner damaged
Oscoda’s brick house had gas lights
*
Town pump in front of the auditorium in Oscoda
Telephone crews get set for dial
AuSable River, Oscoda, MI, looking west, water tower at end of
*
Dwight St, (black slide #159), (3 copies)
Phone lines were put into the logging camps
The New Auditorium, Oscoda, MI, view from E, no landscaping,
*
Dwight St water tower rear right, (2 copies)
Town Pump in Oscoda
*
Wooden Water Pipes, see exhibit in the museum
AuSable Township, see names listed in the reference
Oscoda Township, see names listed in the reference
One of earliest marriage: Mr Bowker & Miss Hannah Armstrong
No colder than Detroit, our winters are steady & uniform
Summer along the shore hotter than ever before in memory
Chief Sodney Mah-Kuk-Kush was a good weather predictor
scene during the winter of 1908, AuSable, MI, Bradshaw photo,
*
After the Storm, April 30, 1909, Oscoda, MI, Bradshaw photo,
*
docks broken, lumber piled on beach, several men
Results of an ice storm 2-22-1922, Oscoda, MI, residence in trees *
StJoseph Hospital opened
*
Tornado
Greetings from Oscoda, MI, Sno-Go at Work, snow plow
*
Snow Plow, Oscoda, MI, #X884,
*
Date Suffixes
 c = circa
 s = eg 1860s indicates 1860-1869
 + = eg 1960+ indicates from 1860 up to the date of the reference
 ± = about that date, including a few years before or after that date
 < = For the July 11 1911 fire items, this indicated before the fire
 > = For the July 11 1911 fire items, this indicates after the fire
Descriptions: To search for specific items use the “Find Button.”
Ref Code
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1981Hp061
WW2p18
LBp107
PC-05.07
P&Hp137
PC-16.05
SHp46
E#14
DR
DR
TY2p011
1883Hp162
NSp01
1981Hp267
PC-42.05
PC-19.02
PC-44.17
1981Hp136
1981Hp262
PC-49.01
PC-49.03
REFERENCES
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Reference (Sequenced by the Ref Code column)
Land of Growth, Waters of Change: 175 years of History- AuSable & Oscoda MI, by Mary Jane
Hennigar, ©1995, 30 minutes on DVD. ($10.00). [AOHSM].
Land of Growth, Waters of Change: 175 years of History- AuSable & Oscoda MI, by Mary Jane
Hennigar, ©1995, written script for the Video & DVD ($1.50). [AOHSM].
Land of Growth, Waters of Change: 175 years of History- AuSable & Oscoda MI, by Mary Jane
Hennigar, ©1995, 30 minutes on Video ($12.00). [AOHSM].
Birds-eye View Map (22”x 20” can be framed) of AuSable & Oscoda, MI, 1880 ($5.50 + $4.00 S&H).
[AOHSM].
Birds-eye View Map (13”x 19” can be framed) of AuSable & Oscoda, MI (computer generated color),
1880 ($10.00 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM].
History of the Lake Huron Shore, ©1883, by H R Page & Co of Chicago, Reprinted 1996, 318 pages,
11”x13½” hard cover ($55.00 + $6.50 S&H). [AOHSM, Library # M/977.4/Hi, & HSGS Folder HIS-5]
1903 Plat Map of AuSable/Oscoda/Packtown (21”x34”), laminated ($20.00 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM].
1903 Plat Map of East Tawas (18½”x34”), laminated ($20.00 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM].
1903 Plat Map of Huron Shore (S end of Cedar Lake to just short of AuSable Point), (11”x24½”),
laminated ($20.00 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM].
1903 Plat Map of Tawas City (23”x23½”), laminated ($20.00 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM].
The History of Iosco County Michigan, by The Iosco County Historical Society, ©1981, 359 pages.
[Library # M/977.4/Hi].
Forty Years a Cookin': Autobiography/biography of John Baptise Soucie 1884-1960), by John Baptiste
Soucie, ©1996 by Vera Soucie Olver & Marie Soucie Gormley, 68 pages, 8½”x11” soft cover ($18.00
+$4.00 S&H). [AOHSM & HSGS Folder HIS-5].
Book, AuSable River Canoe Marathon 1947-1997: Experience the Tradition- The first fifty years, c1997,
176 pages ($60.00). [AOHSM].
AuSable River Queens: The Howard Brubaker Story, ©1993 by the AuSable/Oscoda Historical Society,
34 pages, 8½”x11” soft cover ($6.00 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM & HSGS Folder HIS-2]
Beckoning Hands: The Story of a fearful Crime and its final strange Solution. Detroit and a beautiful
Estate in Northern Michigan forms the background. By Myrta M Dreyer, ©1930, 340pages. [Parks
Library, Fiction Mi/Dr].
Folder, photos of Oscoda, donated by Billie Wright in 2004
The Called The Area Home: Memories & Stores of Early AuSable & Oscoda MI, ©1994 by AuSableOscoda Historical Society, 107 pages, 8½”x11” soft cover ($12.00 +$4.00). [AOHSM & HSSA Folder
HIS-2].
Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Oscoda: 1868-1990 & AuSable Township Cemetery:1867-1928, ©1990
by AuSable–Oscoda Historical Society, 71 pages, 8½’ x 11” soft copy ($12.50 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM
& HSGS Folder CEM].
Folder, Canoe Marathon, 25 photos, donated by Billie Wright in 2004. [AOHSM].
Oscoda-AuSable Death Records: 1867-1950, ©1990 by AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society, 8½” x 11”
soft cover ($12.50 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM & Library # M/929.3/De].
AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society Museum’s exhibit number. [AOHSM].
Early Chicago (A Compendium of the Early History of Chicago to the year 1835 when the Indians left),
by Ulrich Danckers & Jane Meredith, ©1999, 430 pages. [Located in Bruce T Hallie Library, Eastern MI
University, Call # F/548.4/.d36/2000].
The Extinct Passenger Pigeon, By Alonzo J Sherman, ©2004, 11 pages. [AOHSM].
AuSable-Oscoda Society’s Fact Sheet, by Fred Glass, c2001. [AOHSM].
Huron Shores Genealogical Society Newsletters, c/o Parks Public Library, 6010 N Skeel Ave, Oscoda MI
48750. Reference code extension is year/month/page. [HSGS].
Great Lakes Fur Trade Coloring Book (For Kids), © 1981 by Minnesota Historical Society Press, 28
pages, 8.5” x 11” soft cover ($3.50 + $1.00 S&H). [AOHSM].
A History of AuSable & Oscoda, by Onilee MacDonald, ©1942, 67 pages. [HSGA Folder HIS-5].
Ref Code
175d
175s
175v
1880m
1880mc
1883H
1903A/O
1903ET
1903HS
1903TC
1981H
40YC
ARCM
ARQ
BH
BWP
CAH
CEM
CM
DR
E#___
EC
EPP
FS
G
GLFcb
HAO1
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Reference (Sequenced by the Ref Code column)
History of AuSable & Oscoda, by Kenneth Rose, undated, 19 pages, by Kenneth Rose (written by Oscoda
5-6th graders in about 1957). [HSGS Folder HIS-5].
Huron Shores Genealogical Society (HSGS), c/o Robert J Parks Public Library, 6010 N Skeel Ave,
Oscoda MI 48750, 989-739-9581. HSGS indexes include over 820,000 names and is available at: (1) The
genealogy dedicated computer in the Parks Library; (2) Purchase the HSGS’s CD for $10.00; or (3) use
the HSGS’s web-site at www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/iosco/3501.htm.
Iargo Spring Stairway Dedication, by Huron-Manistee National Forest, ©1990, xx pages. [AOHSM].
J O Whittemore’s Daily Journal, by James O Whittemore, ©1866, 65 pages. * [HSGS Folder HIS-1]
Justice of the Peace, Baldwin & East Tawas: 1878-1904. [IOHSM].*
Justice of the Peace, Baldwin & East Tawas: 1880-1901. [IOHSM].*
Justice of the Peace, East Tawas: 1904-1916. [IOHSM].*
Justice of the Peace, East Tawas: 1954-1955. [IOHSM].*
Justice of the Peace, Tawas: 1879-1891. [IORD].*
Justice of the Peace, Tawas: 1889-1919. [IORD]*
Lumberjacks & Logging Coloring Book (For Kids)), © 1982 by Minnesota Historical Society Press, 26
pages, 8.5” x 11” soft cover ($3.50 + $1.00 S&H). [AOHSM].
Looking Back: Memories & Accounts of Early AuSable & Oscoda MI, ©2003 by the AuSable-Oscoda
Historical Society, 121 pages, 8½”x11” soft cover ($12.00). [AOHSM & HSGS Folder HIS-2]
Lord, Send A Fish, ©1982 by Dorothy Colbath, 6” x 9” hard cover, 132 pages ($20.00 + $4.00 S&H).
[AOHSM & HSGS Folder HIS-5]
Map of the original plat of Oscoda MI in 1868
Map of the original plat of AuSable MI in xxxx
1875 Murder In AuSable: The Sorry Life & Times of Henry B Farrington, ©1999 by AuSable-Oscoda
Historical Society, 161 pages, 8½”x11” soft cover ($15.00 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM & HSGS Folder
HIS-2]
Book, Michigan Log Marks, by MI state College, 89 pages, ©1942. [AOHSM].
Folder, Misc Oscoda Items, donated by Billie Wright in 2004. [AOHSM].
Ojibway Indians Coloring Book (For Kids), by Minnesota Historical Society Press, ©1979, 32 pages,
8.5” x11” soft cover ($4.50 + $1.00 S&H). [AOHSM].
The Oscoda Murders, ©1985 by Jim Dunn, Fiction, 66 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” soft cover ($4.95 + $2.00
S&H). [AOHSM].
Oscoda Press Newspaper, Oscoda MI.
Old Van Etten Creek, a Prehistoric Village in Northeast MI, by Dennis M Morrison, reprinted by the
AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society, © not given, 13 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” soft cover ($2.50 + $1.00 S&H).
[AOHSM].
Pick-ups And A Horse, ©1975 by William Ellis, 142 pages, 6” x 9” hard cover ($15.00 + $4.00 S&H).
[AOHSM & HSDA Folder HIS-5]
Paul Bunyan: How A Terrible Timber Feller Became A Legend: History of early logging in MI & Paul
Bunyan legend), ©1993 by D Laurence Rogers, 192 pages, 8.5” x 11” soft cover ($15.00 + $4.00 S&H).
[AOHSM].
Paul Bunyan In The AuSable River County, © 1999 by Patricia Sherman, 19 pages, 8.5” x 11” soft cover
($1.50 +$1.00 D&H). [AOHSM].
Paul Bunyan Festival Inc, 3” notebook
Postcards Collection, by AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society. See the notebook display of zerox copies in
the Museum. Copies of the original archival postcards can be made for $15.00 for a 5” x 7” size and
$20.00 for a 8” x 10” size. [AOHSM].
Folder, donated photos by Ron & Nancy Holliday, 18824 Jefferson Rd, Morley MI 49336 in 2004.
[AOHSM].
The Shipwrecked Baltimore, ©1990 by Pete Place Ferris, Forest Park IL, 41 pages, 8½”x11” soft cover.
[AOHSM].
Ref Code
HAO2
HSGS
ISSD
JOWJ
JP1
JP2
JP3
JP4
JP5
JP6
L&Lcb
LB
LSAF
M01
M02
MIA
MLM
MOI
OJIcb
OM
OPN
OVC
P&H
PB
PBcb
PBF
PC
RNHP
SB
REFERENCES
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Reference (Sequenced by the Ref Code column)
There’s A Sticky Hare On My Plate: Food, Photos & Folklore, ©1999 By AuSable-Oscoda Historical
Society, 74 pages, 8”x11” soft cover ($9.50 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM & HSGS Folder HIS-2]
Shipwrecks Off Our Shores, AuSable & Oscoda MI, ©2001 by AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society, 68
pages, 8½”x11” soft cover ($10.00 +$4.00 S&H). [AOHSM & HSGS Folder HIS-2]
Tawas Herald Newspaper, East Tawas MI (including several different names from 1885 to current)
Times To Remember: Memories & Stories of Early AuSable & Oscoda MI, ©1997, 103 pages, 8½”x11”
soft cover ($12.00 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM & HSGS Folder HIS-2]
Their Yesterdays: AuSable-Oscoda 1848-1948, ©1948 by Edna M Otis, re-printed 2004 by Neil
Thornton, 115 pages, 6” x9” ($12.00 + $4.00 S&H). [AOHSM & HSGS Folder HIS-5]
A Virtual Tour of the AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society’s Museum Exhibits & also includes 1,200
names appearing in the exhibits. All on one CD ($10.00). [AOHSM].
World War Two- Oscoda & AuSable, ©1987 by Jerry Wagner, 65 pages, 5½”x8” soft cover ($4.00
+$2.00 S&H). [AOHSM & HSGS Folder HIS-5]
Iosco County Gazette Newspaper, Tawas City MI
The Indian Mission Messenger, PO Box 314, Oscoda MI 48750
Cash Every Saturday or…. No Sawdust, by Neil Thornton, ©1969, 20 pages [Oscoda Library M/977.4].
Ref Code
SH
SW
THN
TTR
TY2
VT
WW2
ICGN
IMM
NS
Some of these records are of adjacent areas are considered representative of AuSable & Oscoda, and therefore
are included. When reading the complete reference material it will indicate if it is a record of AuSable-Oscoda or
of an adjacent area.
Note. Above references with prices are sold at the AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society’s Museum. Send your order
and check to the mailing address on the cover of this book.
Note. Location of the references are shown inside square brackets [
].
 AOHSM = AuSable-Oscoda Historical Society’s Museum.
 HSGS = Huron Shores Genealogical Society (inside the Parks Library), followed by a Folder ID.
 IOHSM = Iosco County Historical Society’s Museum.
 IORD = Iosco County Register of Deeds
 Library = The Parks Public Library, followed by the call number.