How the U.P. became the U.P.
People, places, traditions, industries, and turning points that shaped Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
17 stories from this part of the U.P.
Granite Island Light, ten miles off Marquette, was built of stone quarried on the Huron Islands in 1868, cost three keepers their lives, and...
John and Mary Longyear's 64-room sandstone mansion stood on the Marquette bluff from 1892 until 1903, when they dismantled it and rebuilt it in...
The Huron Islands sit three miles off the Marquette County shore. After the steamer Arctic ran onto them in 1860, Congress paid $17,000 for...
In 1906 Cleveland-Cliffs president William Gwinn Mather hired Boston landscape architect Warren H. Manning to lay out a company town in Marquette County. He...
Marquette engineers invented the pocket ore dock. The 1931 Lower Harbor dock loaded 10,103 tons in 92 minutes on its first run, shut down...
The Cliffs Shaft Mine headframes in Ishpeming are Egyptian Revival obelisks designed by a Chicago architect in 1919, and crews built them around the...
Iron was found under Negaunee in 1844, and for a century the town mined itself hollow, until fences reading Danger: Caving Grounds ringed its...
Everyone remembers U.P. copper and iron. Almost nobody remembers the druggist who struck gold near Ishpeming in 1880 and built Michigan’s only profitable gold...
Chief Charles Kawbawgam welcomed Marquette's founders ashore in 1849, presided as the last local Ojibwe chief, and rests at Presque Isle under a Lake...
The Barnes-Hecker mine near Ishpeming flooded in 15 minutes in 1926, killing 51 men. One miner, Wilfred Wills, climbed 800 feet of ladders and...
In November 1913, a single storm tore across the Great Lakes for four days, sank a dozen ships, and killed more than 250 sailors....
Inside the movie theatre of the Marquette Branch Prison, a December night in 1921 turned into the darkest chapter in the prison's long history...
The national Ski Hall of Fame sits in Ishpeming for a reason, this is where the whole sport got organized When you picture the...
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