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Sep 10, 20262 min read

Locals call the top of the Keweenaw "Copper Island." The waterway that cuts it off runs 25 miles. The part anyone actually dug is two and a half.

A ship canal finished in 1874 cut the northern Keweenaw off from the rest of Michigan, and the Portage Lake Lift Bridge...

Jun 13, 20263 min read

Years before the forty-niners headed west, a rush for copper built the Keweenaw, and the Quincy Mine still towers over it Everybody...