Wilds Rd

Widner Creek Wolf Creek Alcona County Little Wolf Creek

Bartz Rd Bartz W Hubert Rd Doctors Club Rd Beaver Creek Hawkins Rd Alcona County !y Flynn Valley Rd Hubbard Lake North End Park E Negwegon Park Rd 14 West Dr W Spruce Rd ëBuckingham, Alvin N Sand Hill Rd N Olson Rd W Fruchey Ranch Rd McGinn Creek W Fruchey Ranch Rd

W Flynn Valley Rd Butternut Creek

N Hansen Rd

N Anderson Rd Anderson N Cedar Dr Self-Guided E Swede Rd

N GillardRd Pine St N SchoolRd

N McDonald Rd W Mount Maria Rd Maria Mount W

15 Bennett Rd N !y East Bay Access Site E Roe Rd N Sayers N Rd Upper S Br Thunder Bay River Robbs Creek Davis Creek Loretta E Black River Rd ë Leer Ranch Rd Park St E Ludwig Rd N Bouchard Rd Stacie Ln N VanWagoner Rd N LaFave Rd !y Venus W Consolidated Rd ë Little North Creek

McGinn Creek Black River Park N King N Rd

M 65 N LaVigne N Rd Driving Tour C Black River McGinn Creek Hubbard E Balli Rd

Lake Fontaine N Rd ëCity of Alpena Silver Creek N Lake Shore Dr Egan, Marion McGinn CreekMcCollum Lake Rd W Crowell Rd ë Huron National Rd Londe La Greenbush, Mikado, Curtis and Fox Rd Robb St Clear Creek Little Wolf Creek 13 Wildcat Creek E Malaski Rd Upper S Branch Thunder Bay R Lost Lake Rd Forest Mitchell Townships.

McKinley Rd N Spruce Rd Wildcat Creek South Bay Access Site Lake Bear Creek E Sucker Creek Rd

N Dunndale Dr E Sucker Creek Rd McKinley Trl W Hubbard Lake Trl !y E Alcona Rd E Shaw Rd Huron Silver Creek

Fish Creek N Somers N Rd E McNeil Rd

Mule Deer Trl

N Jack Rd W McCollum W Rd Cold Creek West Branch River N Everett Rd N Lake Shore Dr W Deer Pettis Creek Panackia Trl

Mohr Creek Mohr E Beaton Rd M 72 E Miller Rd E Miller Rd ëMarine City Lake Dr Haynes Creek Black River

N Shunk Hollow Rd McGregor N Rd

Yoder Creek N Sharboneau N Rd

N Sanborn Rd E Quick Rd N Buhl N Rd E Quick Rd ë Woodland Trl Sturgeon Point Lighthouse W Tower Rd Coville N Rd 0(8

Hardy Grade Comstock Creek E Point Rd

S Wilson S Rd Ramsey Rd Ramsey N Taylor N Rd E French Rd Bernice D.

N Raymond Rd 12 Somers N Rd

E Ritchie Rd Gehres N Rd E Ritchie Rd N Reeves Rd Reeves N Lakeside Trl

N EverettN Rd 10 Buff Creek E French Rd E Yuill Rd

N Dejarlais Rd Wildwood Trl Rd Richardson N Federal Forest Road 4312 11 St Lake Lincoln E Trask Lake Rd

Blockhouse Creek Federal Forest Road 3977 W Trask Lake Rd 2nd St 2nd E Medor Rd Barton City N Swamp Rd Old M 65 M Old Grosse Pointe Rd N Sanborn Rd E Walker Rd W Walker Rd N Stockton Rd Blockhouse Creek N O Donnell Rd N Dejarlais Rd W Church St

Old State Rd Hubbard N Lake Rd ë N Kohler N Rd S Menominee Rd Backus Creek Hoist Lakes Foot Travel Area Harrisville F 32 Loud Creek Pine River Trl Blockhouse Creek

McKinley Rd Coville N Rd E Clark Rd S 3rd St !y

Loud Creek Backus Creek E Clark Rd N Stout N Rd Unknown RaymondN Rd Sunday Dr Sunday N Barlow N Rd

Hepting Trl Atchinson S Rd E Dewar Rd

W Dewar Rd E Springport Rd !y

S McGregor S Rd

StocktonRd N Poor N Farm Rd S AuSable Rd ë Au Sable River RossS Rd Reid Lake Quiet Area E Clemens Rd E Dean Rd Shipwreck

Huron National E Fowler Rd Rd McConnell S E Fowler Rd W Sunny Lake Rd W Fowler Rd 0(8 Lighthouse Branch Pine River E Dellar Rd

McGillis Creek

S Campbell S Rd S Everett Rd Everett S

W Pine Tree Dr Crescent Rd

Forest E Procunier Rd W Procunier W Rd M 65 W Procunier Rd E Procunier Rd County Boundary McCreedie Rd McCreedie AuSable Rd W Horseshoe Lake Rd Backus Creek W Condon Rd E Pettit Rd S King S Rd E Chisholm Rd F 4001 Van Etten Creek State Highway US 23 Heritage Route

Bliss Lake Rd Bean S Hill Rd Tait Rd E Tait Rd Tait Rd Sunrise Dr W Tait Rd S Peake Rd W Birch Rd Timber Trl

McCreed Rd Bliss Lake Rd Rd Jakob Mikado Glennie Rd Snowmobile Trail

S Adams S Rd 2 Mikado Detroit S North Lake Rd Davidson St 1 ë E Ridley Rd E Ridley Rd Hintz Rd Bamfield Creek W Smith Rd 3 Ludwig Rd Nonmotorized Trail

S McDougall Rd ArmstrongRd S Buhl S Rd Branch Pine River E Smith Rd Modern Rd W Body Rd Stout S Rd

S Cruzen S Rd Pinetree Dr ORV Trails & Route E Wissmiller Rd Prince Dr Sunset Dr Rd Coles W Glennie Rd Curtisville Rd W Wissmiller Rd Glennie Rd Samyn Creek Branch Pine River

DeMotte DeMotte Rd Mattis Dr 4 Poor S Farm Rd S Brodie S Rd F 30 E Andrews Rd E Andrews Rd Mazo Dr Paved Road 9 Bamfield Rd Glennie Kurtz Creek 6 W Clouse Rd Clouse Rd Vandercook Rd

W Clouse Rd Coville S Rd Bert St Bert W McDonald Rd Pine River 7 Ford Rd Pine River Rd Unpaved Road 8 Orr Ln Smith Creek Rd Elm St Hoskins Rd McDonald Creek Wallace Creek Vandercook Rd E Goddard Rd Smith Creek RdBissonette Bell Rd River AuSable River Rd Grey Creek Duval Creek

Kobs Rd Rempert

Roy Creek S Curtisville S Rd Shore to Shore Trail S Baker Rd W Aldrich Rd Webster Rd

Ford Rd

Prentice Rd Lake Bernathy Trl US 23

E Michaud Rd Rd Bischoff E Michaud Rd Michaud Rd Linda Dr Cedar Lake

DeCostRd Duval Creek City/Village S Alvin S Rd

Fraser Rd 41 F Alcona Historical Society

Bryant Creek S London Rd London S Rearing Pond Rd

S Cedar Lake Rd

W Kings Corner Rd Lake Rd Vaughn

W Kings Corner Rd E Kings Corner Rd S Healey S Rd W Kings Corner Rd

Hoppy Creek W Kings Corner Rd Hill Creek Oak St Oak

S Quick Rd Duval Creek

Rearing Pond Rd McArdle Rd McArdle

South Branch Rd S Birch S Acres Rd Hoppy Creek Au Sable River 5 N Au Sable State Forest P.O. Box 174, 00.511.522.5 Mile Map produced by the Northeast Michigan Council of Governments 2012 Stewart Creek www.nemcog.org Au Sable State Forest Huron Creek www.heritage23.org Harrisville, MI 48740 1) St. Raphael Church 6) Former Glennie United Methodist Church 11) Wiedbrauk Centennial Farm 2) Klondike School Site 7) Curtisville Cemetery 12) Original Sunnyside United Methodist Church Sitewww.alconahistoricalsociety.com 3) Original Bailey School Site 8) Curtisville Civic Center 13) Hardy Station 4) Rearing Ponds at CCC Camp Glennie 9) Curtisville Baptist Church 14) Flynn Valley 5) CCC Camp Glennie Barracks 10) LaForge Centennial Farm 15) Flynn Valley Cemetery 2018 Edition 1. St. Raphael Church (F-30 at F-41, Mikado Township) in the state, built to provide the fingerlings that restored fish to 8. Curtisville Civic Center (Curtisville School) (Curtisville Rd., 12. Original Sunnyside United Methodist Church Site This faith community was begun the Pine River after the depredations of the loggers who had Curtis Township) (Reeves Rd., just north of Small Rd., East of M-65, Mitchell Twp) used the river to float logs to the saw mills. The logs scraped in about 1888 when Father P.C. In 1910, a Ladies Aid Society the stream bottom, thereby wiping out the fish habitat. CCC In 1884 a one-room log Winter of the AuSable Parish was formed to raise money to boys from Camp Glennie also planted the countless trees that schoolhouse was built, at the began saying mass periodically build a United Methodist Church restored the surrounding area. Stump land became the forest site now occupied by the at the nearby McDonald home. in Curran. On November 19, of today. (The CCC planted a total of 480 million trees Curtisville Civic Center. The Construction of the church 1919 the church was dedicated. nationwide!) land was donated by the began in 1893 under the lumber company of Moore and The Reverend C.S. Brown was direction of Father J.A. Doucet. Tanner. It was the first school the first pastor. In June of 1965 The building was constructed 5. CCC Camp Glennie Barracks (South on Rearing Pond Road built west of the Au Sable River the church moved to its present from material from an unused to Kings Corner Road, turn west, about 5.5 miles from Rearing in Curtis Township. Later the site. The front steps and hand railings of the original building Oscoda school-church. The Ponds) school moved into another larger log building, also built in 1884, are still visible. finished church was dedicated The actual location of the CCC on the same site. The logs were eventually covered with on Sunday, August 18, 1895 by Camp Glennie barracks is in clapboard. 13. Hardy Station (M-72 & McCollum Rd., Mitchell Twp.) Bishop Richter from Grand Iosco County a few miles from Rapids, with some 600 people Hardy Station was located near the rearing ponds. A U.S. 9. Curtisville Baptist Church (Curtisville Rd., Curtis Township) in attendance. Father Doucet became the Pastor, with Father Forest Service sign pays tribute the intersection of McCollum Poulin as his Assistant. At that time, it was the only church to the work of Companies 664 The church was organized in Road and Highway M-72. It was structure in this part of the county. and 1687 of CCC Camp 1880. The church building a stop on the AuSable and was built shortly thereafter on Northwestern railroad serving 2. Klondike School Site (Northwest corner of F-30 at Buhl Glennie. The photo below land donated by Ebenezer logging camps in the region. A Road , Mikado Township) shows Bob Reames next to the Duncan Curtis, founder of large station, it housed a post office and general store, as well Klondike School was one of sign. Bob spent many years Curtisville. About forty as providing lodgings and food for travelers. the 5,100 one-room schools in with the U.S. Forest Service. He was the source of much of the volunteers, using hand-hewn use in Michigan in 1931. The information recorded here. Over 3.5 million young men were logs, put up the building in the 14. Flynn Valley (Flynn Valley Road, east of M-65, Mitchell Twp.) CAUTION: Two track sand road unsuitable for many vehicles original one-room, wooden enrolled in the CCC during the Great Depression. The boys manner of a “barn raising.” structure at this location were required to send their earnings home to their families – it Many of the building materials were donated. Members had From 1906 to 1940, Flynn burned to the ground in kept many of them from starving. canvassed for donations all over the region (Oscoda-Au Sable, Valley was the site of a September 1906, destroying Lincoln, Harrisville, Alpena, Tawas, Prescott and Hale). prosperous farm community of 6. (Former) Glennie United Methodist Church all contents and furnishings. over 30 families. In 1906, the (5088 Bamfield Rd., Glennie, Curtis Township) The following year, Seth Bell 10. LaForge Centennial Farm (6688 N. M-65 Mitchell Township) first settlers, Art and Ruth Flynn & Son won the contract to The church was organized on ****Please note this is a Private Residence****** came to homestead 160 acres rebuild the school on the same location. Today only the December 25, 1903 by This eighty acre Centennial in the McGinn Creek valley. foundation remains. Reverend W.F. Gawn, with 17 Farm has been in the LaForge Over the next few years, on the charter members. The family since 1887. It was site depicted in the photo on the 3. Original Bailey School Site (F-30 just east of Bean Hill cornerstone was laid in 1905 originally owned by James and left, Art Flynn built a house, two Rd., Mikado Township) and the church was dedicated Emilie LaForge, one of many barns, a granary, a chicken on December 5, 1907. In 1923 Bailey School was one of the Ontario families that came coop and a blacksmith shop, all 5,100 one-room schools in use central heating was installed to replace the original wood stoves. during the lumbering era. When log structures. Between 1914 in Michigan in 1931. The 18 x A basement was built and the structure was moved onto it. the lumbering ended they chose to buy some pine-stump land, and 1918, Flynn built a frame 24 foot building was made of The horse shelter has been replaced with a parking lot and in to clear the stumps and become farmers. The present dwelling house and acquired a dairy locally cut Norway Pine. It was 1955 an addition was completed. dates from 1961. herd of 145 cows. He employed, and housed, as many as 22 built in 1907 for the children of men to work his farm. the logging crews at the C.A. 7. Curtisville Cemetery (Clouse Rd., Curtis Township) 11. Wiedbrauk Centennial Farm (6825 Ritchie Rd., Mitchell In the late twenties the burgeoning deer population began laying Johnson Logging Camp near The earliest tombstone is dated Township) waste to farm crops. Settlers began to abandon their farms Mikado. After logging ceased 1892, but the cemetery is much ***Please Note this is a Private Residence**** and move away. The peak of the deer population was reached in 1936. Eventually the farms were replaced by deer camps. there, the building was moved northeast to a site west of Mikado. older than that. (The records In 1890 this eighty acre Today only one descendant family remains. But many places The structure was moved to Sturgeon Point in 1998. Only were destroyed by a fire at the Michigan Centennial Farm was of business, in and around Curran, bear names of descendants portions of the original foundation remain intact and visible. home of the sexton.) A number purchased by Lewis Weidbrauk of Flynn Valley settlers. of war veterans are interred from the L.C. Smith Lumbering The farmers and farm buildings are long gone, but some Alcona 4. Rearing Ponds at CCC Camp Glennie (Rearing Pond Road, here, beginning with Civil War and continuing through every Company. He constructed a Historical Site signs have been placed to designate significant just north of Pine River) war since. three room log cabin that was locations. (Daisy Dell School, Ponca Post Office, the Fitch The rearing ponds can be demolished and replaced in Store) seen near the campground 1965. His log barn haymow is still standing and the spring, at pavilion that was built by the which he watered his livestock, is still flowing. He was a 15. Flynn Valley Cemetery (Cemetery Road east of M-65, boys from CCC Camp Glennie. lumberman until the lumbering era ended. He chose not to south of Flynn Valley Road) They also built the roads to “follow the timber” but to clear the stumps from his land and to Arthur Flynn and many other and beyond this site. This was become a farmer. Flynn Valley settlers are the site of the first fish hatchery interred in Flynn Valley Cemetery.