Iosco County

County Seat: Tawas City

Origin of Name: A Native American word meaning "water of light"

Set Off: 1840 as Kanotin County. Renamed Iosco in 1843

Organized: 1857

Population in 1990: 30,209

For many counties the number of items listed is quite long. Navigational buttons are located only at the end of the list. This list of material represents the library's holdings as of July 1997. Be sure to check with us for any additional items we may now have either by contacting the library or by pressing the " Centra-Libraries Catalog" link to the left.

Au Sable and Oscoda Bird's Eye View. Map, 1880.

Bielby, Lyle I. Evaluation of Recreation in Plainfield. CMU Term Paper, 1948.

Bigelow, Mabel. Survey of Tawas City. CMU Term Paper, 1947-1948.

Bowers, Ruth M. Study of the Plainfield Unit Schools. CMU Term Paper, n.d.

Campbell, Donna. Pack and Woods Lumber Company of Oscoda, Michigan. CMU Term Paper, 1967.

Colbath, Dorothy. Lord, Send a Fish. n.p., 1982. (Au Sable, Oscoda).

East Tawas Centennial. June 24-30, 1962. East Tawas, MI: 1962.

An East Tawas Vacation. East Tawas, MI: Iosco County Gazette, n.d.

Fuerst, Lois. Sociological Survey of Burleigh Township and City of Whittemore. CMU Term Paper, 1948.

Groff, Viola. Social Importance of Transportation Facilities in Iosco County. CMU Term Paper, 1948.

Hale, Alice. Dependency and Welfare of Iosco County. CMU Term Paper, n.d.

History of Iosco County, Michigan. East Tawas, MI: Iosco County Historical Society, [1981].

History of Plainfield Township, Iosco County, Michigan. Plainfield Township Centennial, October 18-20, 1968. [Tawas City, MI: Tawas Herald Print, 1968].

History of the Lake Huron Shore: With Illustrations and Biographical. . . Chicago, IL: H.R. Page & Co., 1883.

Home Coming Week on the "Sable," July 29th to August 4th, 1906. Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1979. Facsimile of 1906 edition.

Index to the Press, Oscoda/Au Sable, Michigan: 1901-1951. n.p., 1993.

Johnson, Sarah. Social Survey of Organizations in Hale. CMU Term Paper, n.d.

Kohn, Hattie L. Comparative Study of the Schools of Tawas City. CMU Term Paper, 1948.

Leslie, Isabelle. Sociological Survey of the Upper Towline School District. CMU Term Paper, n.d.

McGuire, Ellen. Sociological Study of Ottowas Beach. CMU Term Paper, 1948.

Miller, Hazen L. The Old Au Sable. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1964.

Northern Michigan Along Lake Huron Shore. [East Tawas, MI: C.M. Garrison, ca 1895].

Otis, Edna M. Sawdust Days; When the Tawas Area was Young. East Tawas, MI: 1973.

Otis, Edna M. Their Yesterdays: AuSable and Oscoda, 1848-1948. n.p., 1948.

Rollin, Hildur. Juvenile Delinquency in Iosco County. CMU Term Paper, 1948.

Ross, Ray R. The Green, Green Grass of the Hemlock. NY: Carlton Press, 1986.

Rowley, Catherine. Social Survey of East Tawas, MI. CMU Term Paper, 1948.

Tawas Beach: A Health Resort Among the Pine Trees of Northern Michigan Situated on Tawas Bay, Lake Huron. Bay City, MI: Detroit & Mackinac Railway Co., [1903].

Thornton, Neil. Along the Historic Riviere Aux Sables. Tawas City, MI: Printer's Devil Press, 1987.

Thornton, Neil. Around the Bay. Tawas City, MI: Printer's Devil Press, [1991]. (Tawas City).

Thornton, Neil. Cash Every Saturday, or No Sawdust! Tawas City, MI: Tawas Herald, 1969.

Thornton, Neil. Early Times in Iosco: The Gay Nineties. Tawas City, MI: Printer's Devil Press, 1996.

Thornton, Neil. Iosco County and Lake Huron Shore Log Marks. Tawas City, MI: Printer's Devil Press, 1981.

Thornton, Neil. Law & Order: North of Saginaw Bay. Tawas City, MI: Printer's Devil Press, [1988].

Thorton, Neil. Now You're Loggin'. Tawas City, MI: Printer's Devil Press, 1989.

United States. Forest Service. Huron National Forest: An Historical Summary. Cadillac, MI: [Foust Service, 1945].

Wagner, Jerry. World War Two, Oscoda and Au Sable. East Tawas, MI: Iosco County Historical Association, 1987.