| The Louis Chevalier Claim | 
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| In 1823 Louis Chevalier, a French Canadian trader, was granted 500 arpents (640 acres) of land by the United States government. This land located on the Au Sable River, extends northwesterly in a long, narrow, French ribbon-farm manner. It still appears on maps of AuSable Township. From around 1820 to the mid-1830s, Chevalier bartered trade goods for furs, fish and game brought in by Chippewa and white trappers, hunters and fishermen in this locality. He conducted his trade near this site from a hand-hewn log blockhouse. Although he left the area in 1833, ruins of the structure were still visible in 1867. Chevalier's trading post is regarded by many as the first business of consequence in Iosco County. |
Registered Site L0830
Erected 1980
Location: 295 Harbor St
Oscoda, Iosco County
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