A Road Commissioner Kept Buying Extra Land in 1918 and Gave It to the Public. A Century Later It Is a State Park.
Herbert Larson bought wide rights of way for Iron County around 1918 and dedicated them to public use. In 1923 he bought a farmstead...
Land, water, weather, and the road there
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A Lumberman Bought This Forest to Cut It Down in 1895. He Looked at It and Changed His Mind.
A.D. Johnston bought 80 acres at Clark Lake for the pine and decided not to log it. Sylvania is now 18,327 acres and one...
Iron Mountain’s Mine Would Not Stop Flooding. So They Built the Biggest Steam Engine in America, and It Never Left Town.
The Chapin Mine sat under a cedar swamp and flooded relentlessly, so Iron Mountain got a 725-ton answer: the largest steam-driven pumping engine ever...
There’s a Forest Service Tree Nursery Hidden in the U.P. That Replants Forests Across the East
Most people drive right past it. But this 90-year-old nursery outside Watersmeet is the last of its kind in the eastern U.S. — and...
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