Iron Mountain
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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…
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Kingsford Charcoal Began With Scrap Wood From a U.P. Sawmill
Ford Motor Company turned scrap wood from its U.P. lumber operations into…
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Iron Mountain Almost Buried This Mine in 1993. One Caver Saved a Quarter-Million Bats.
A rumored-bottomless mine shaft in Iron Mountain turned out to hold a…
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Part of the U.P. Has Been an Hour Behind the Rest of Michigan for 50 Years
Most of Michigan runs on Eastern Time. But four counties in the…
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The U.P. Came This Close to Leaving Michigan and Becoming the 51st State of Superior
The dream of breaking away from Michigan is older than the Mackinac…
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Two Best Friends From Tiny Iron Mountain Grew Up to Conquer College Hoops and the NFL, and They Never Stopped Being Buddies
Tom Izzo and Steve Mariucci were teammates in three sports at Iron…
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A Tiny U.P. Airport Just Turned Its Terminal Into An Art Gallery — And The First Artist’s Story Will Make You Smile
The next time you fly out of Iron Mountain, look up. The…
