The Pageant of Tuscarora
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A history of Tuscarora Township, Michigan. covering settlers and landowners, transportation history, settlements and industry, post offices, schools, churches, hotels, newspapers and more. Liberal use of historic photographs.
The Tuscarora region has a 48 mile network of lakes, portages and rivers which have provided a lifeline for the area's inhabitants for at least two hundred years. It was first used by Indians for fishing, hunting and canoe transportation, later for their access to fur trading at Mackinac Island.
In the past one hundred years since our ancestors began arriving in this area of Michigan many records have been lost, many people who would have remembered have gone, and physical features have altered or disappeared. As a result much of the information presented is necessarily based on the memory of those still living, conflicting newspaper accounts, or - in certain cases - controversial recorded history. The list of references cited represents some of what is believed to be the batter of available written material which pertains to Tuscarora Township. No attempt has been made to repeat all of the information to be found in these references except where the data is necessary for continuity of presentation.
In an attempt to preserve certain facts and pictures from the past to that they will not be lost to our children and those to come we present this, a resume of the history of Tuscarora township in its earliest days.
By : Robert C. Sager, Burt Lake, MI. 220 pages, 8.75"x11.5", hardbound. Private publication, 1975. Reprinted in 2001 in cooperation with the Burt Lake Christian Church, Helen Boyd Higgins Memorial Library-Historical Section.