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Arenac County

 

Basic Information

County Seat: Standish.

Origin of Name: A derivation of the Latin "arena" and the Native American "ac." The combined word means "sandy place."

Set Off: 1831 but incorporated into Bay County in 1858. Separated from Bay County in 1883.

Organized: 1883.

Population in 1990: 14,931

Material Available

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.

Adams, Virginia. History of the Sterling Area. [n.p., 1976].

Au-Gres Centennial Board. Au-Gres Centennial, 1865-1965: From Timber to Tourists, History of Au-Gres Area. n.p., 1965.

Churilo, Phyllis. Au Gres Political Activity in the Late Eighteen Hundreds. CMU Term Paper, n.d.

Donnelly, Ruth B. Social Survey of Clayton Twp. Dist. No. 3 Hanna School. CMU Term Paper, 1947.

Donnelly, William. Social Survey of Clayton Township. CMU Term Paper, 1947.

First Families of Standish Township. [n.p., 197-].

McCready, Allan. The Story of Standish and its People, 1876-1976. [Tawas City, MI: Northeastern Printers], 1976.

Milne, Joanne. History of Standish Township, Arenac County. CMU Term Paper, 1971.

Omer Centennial Book, 1872-1972. [Omer, MI: Omer Centennial Committee, 1972].