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Mason County Informational Designation / Mason County Courthouse† 300 East Ludington Avenue Ludington: August 15, 1975: Notipekago Commemorative Designation South Custer Road just north of Conrad Road near the Pere Marquette River: Custer Township: November 18, 1993: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: 2579 Free Soil Road ...
The Not-A-Pe-Ka-Gon Site or Notipekago Site, also known as the Quick Site, is a multi-component archaeological site located near where South Custer Road crosses the Pere Marquette River in Mason County, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1993 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
The county is named for Stevens T. Mason, Governor of Michigan from 1835 to 1840. [5] It was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Notipekago County , [ 6 ] then renamed Mason County in 1843.
Mason County is the name of several counties in the United States: Mason County, Illinois; Mason County, Kentucky, originally Mason County, Virginia (1788–1792) Mason County, Michigan; Mason County, Texas; Mason County, Washington; Mason County, West Virginia, originally Mason County, Virginia (1804–1863)
Pere Marquette Charter Township is a charter township of Mason County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,416 at the 2020 census. [2] The township was named for French explorer Père Jacques Marquette. [5] The township surrounds the city of Ludington on Lake Michigan, but the city and the township are administered autonomously.
Aaron Burr Caswell (1807–1896) was an American frontiersman and the first white man to occupy any part of Mason County, Michigan.He became the county's first coroner, probate judge and surveyor; and constructed its first framed building that functioned as a home, courthouse and jail—it is also the only surviving landmark of Mason County's earliest history.
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The township is in northwestern Mason County, bordered to the north by Manistee County and to the west by Lake Michigan. U.S. Route 31 runs north-south along the eastern border of the township. According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 48.92 square miles (126.70 km 2 ), of which 48.73 square miles (126.21 ...