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May 17, 2024 · PAINESDALE, MICH. -- The tours at a historic Upper Peninsula copper mine site now have an unexpected new highlight. During a project at Painesdale Mine & Shaft, workers recently discovered well ...
May 18, 2024 · Tracking the U.P. Wolf Love it or hate it, the Upper Peninsula’s gray wolf has become a Michigan celebrity By Ren Brabenec | May 18, 2024. The term “unforgettable” has lost some of its significance due to overuse in a modern-day culture where corporate advertising labels everything from a new automobile to body wash as “unforgettable.”
May 7, 2024 · Schedule of mail trains, 1892-1903, 1912-1961. Periodic pocket schedules issued by the 10th Division headquarters showing arrival times at all post offices of all trains serving the railway mail service in the division. The division included the upper peninsula of Michigan, and the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and ...
May 14, 2024 · Poor rock was discarded while copper rock (two- to four-percent copper) was sent to the stamp mill. TRANSPORTING. Railroads served the peninsula's mining industry, linking mines, mills, smelters, and support facilities. Spurs and sidings off the main line carried rail cars into buildings for loading.
May 20, 2024 · Today, such exhibits serve principally to educate museum-goers of the material properties and geological occurrence of copper. They also recall the nineteenth-century transformation of the Upper Peninsula into a leading source of the metal for manufacturers during the rise of the United States as a world industrial power.
May 7, 2024 · Seney Wildlife Refuge. South Shore of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The Cooper Country Trail National Byway. Covered Road. M-26 Lakeshore Drive Spur. US-2. Federal Forest Highway 13. Plan a Scenic Drive in the Upper Peninsula. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has plenty of well-known scenic spots and landmarks, but it’s also a hidden gem for scenic ...
