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Location City or town Description 1: Assinins: Assinins: May 19, 1972 : US 41: Assinins: Assinins was founded in 1843 by Bishop Frederic Baraga, and is one of the earliest Catholic missions in the Upper Peninsula associated with the Bishop. Baraga built the Old St. Joseph Orphanage and School on the site in 1860; wings were added to the ...
In 1925, the National Gypsum Company opened a quarry nearby, and the name of the post office was changed to National City in 1926. [6] The National City post office, with ZIP code 48748, provides service to a portion of Sherman Township, as well as to another discontinuous area in Grant, Plainfield, Wilber, and Tawas townships to the north. [7]
The quarry exploits limestone and dolomite strata, part of the "Michigan Basin" and the "Rogers City" geologic unit and strata. [14] [24] "As proposed, the name Rogers City is applied to limestone and dolomite strata formerly considered part of the Dundee, which is here restricted to lower 140 feet (43 m) of section. Lower 8 feet (2.4 m) to 9 ...
The following is a list of National Register of Historic Places listings in Lapeer County, Michigan. Lapeer County was founded in 1822 and has a current estimated population of almost 90,000. It is officially listed as part of Metro Detroit with Lapeer as a county seat.
The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources is a museum and Arkansas state park in Smackover, Arkansas, in the United States. The museum was formed in the 1980s to tell the history of the petroleum industry and later the brine industry as key economic movements spurred by natural resources in South Arkansas .
The Keweenaw National Historical Park is a unit of the U.S. National Park Service, made up of two primary units, the Calumet Unit (roughly covering the Calumet Historic District) and the Quincy Unit (roughly covering the Quincy Mine Historic District), and 16 cooperating "Heritage Sites" located on federal, state, and privately owned land in ...
The company was founded in 2002 by Paul M. Rady and Glen C. Warren, Jr. after they sold their previous venture, Pennaco Energy, to Marathon Oil. Beginning in February 2003, Warburg Pincus invested over $1.5 billion into the company and at one time held a controlling stake. [3] In 2005, the company sold its assets in the Barnett Shale to XTO ...
The township is in western Midland County, bordered to the west by Isabella County.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 36.1 square miles (93 km 2), of which 35.4 square miles (92 km 2) are land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km 2), or 1.94%, are water. [1]