How the U.P. became the U.P.
People, places, traditions, industries, and turning points that shaped Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
40 stories from this part of the U.P.
In 1923 Henry Ford bought Pequaming and 40,000 acres from the Hebard family. He ran the mill for car parts, raised wages, built schools...
On August 25, 1896, a swamp fire driven by a gale reached the Diamond Match Company's lumber yards and burned 344 buildings in Ontonagon,...
On May 20, 1887 a fire that started on one roof burned most of Lake Linden because the village owned no fire equipment. The...
Keweenaw County has about 2,000 residents and its seat is Eagle River, population 65. The courthouse there was built in 1866 for $6,578, dressed...
The Houghton County Traction Company ran electric streetcars through the Copper Country from 1900 until 1932. Its 1909 Ahmeek station is still in business,...
Houghton's Douglass House doubled to 100 rooms in 1899, designed by an Adler and Sullivan draftsman and built by Paul Mueller, who later built...
Suomi College opened Old Main in Hancock in 1900, one sandstone building holding dormitory, chapel, library and classrooms. It became the longest-surviving Finnish-founded school...
A Finnish immigrant family homesteaded 40 acres in Baraga County in 1896 and stayed until 1966. The hewn log buildings, sauna included, still stand...
In 1908 promoters built a dance pavilion, hotel, and roller coaster at Portage Entry near Jacobsville. Visitors came by steamboat for about fifty cents...
In 1923 a former Quincy Smelter worker wrote from Finland confessing he had stolen 16 pounds of copper in 1907. He paid the $2...
There is a beach on the east side of the Keweenaw Peninsula that is the wrong color. It runs black-grey for miles south of...
The town put a clock tower on it. That is the detail that gives away what Calumet thought it was building in 1900, because...
Somewhere around two in the morning in early February, in a town where the snow gets measured in feet, a few hundred college students...
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