Arenac County, Michigan

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• published: 14 Mar 2013
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If you like the outdoors, Arenac County is great place to relocate your business, or to establish a new manufacturing facility. There are a multitude of outdoor recreational activities to enjoy along with the year-round community festivals and events. This video highlights the beauty of the area and the benefits of living and working in one of the communities along the almost 50 miles of Lake Huron shoreline or adjacent to thousands of acres of recreational land. Told in their own words, the owners and managers of the national and global manufacturing community already located here share with viewers why they have chosen to stay here, and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and ethnologist, named this county "Arenac" by combining "arena" (referring to the sand in the Roman Coliseum that provided a better footing for gladiators), and "place of" to ultimately mean "a sandy place for good footing". Located on the northern shore of Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron, this area has long been inhabited by humans, with some 5000 year old Native American artifacts being found here. The Rifle, Au Gres, and Pine Rivers made for excellent fishing and canoeing routes for both the Ottawa Indians and early settlers to the area including Captain J.P. Phillips and John Lentz, who started a sawmill in 1856. Arenac County was organized in 1883 during the lumber boom. In keeping with the name Henry Schoolcraft gave it, Arenac provided early settlers a "good footing" for starting out in life. To this day, Arenac County remains a very popular destination resort area with plenty of canoeing, kayaking, big water boating, birding, fishing, and hunting. To learn more about the benefits of relocating your business to Arenac County contact the County Board of Commissioners Office at 989-846-6188.