Houghton
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Everyone North of Houghton Lives on an Island. One Bridge Is the Only Way On — and It’s the Heaviest of Its Kind on Earth.
The Keweenaw Waterway makes the northern Keweenaw an island, and the Portage…
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In This Part of the U.P., They Measure Snow in Feet, and Some Winters in Yards
Some winters the snow up here piles past twenty feet. The locals…
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Before the Gold Rush, There Was a Copper Rush, and It Happened Right Here in the U.P.
Years before the forty-niners headed west, a rush for copper built the…
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Forget Canada. The World’s First Pro Hockey League Started in a U.P. Mining Town
Houghton calls itself the Birthplace of Professional Hockey, and the history backs…
