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Grand Hotel says 660 feet. The National Park Service says 628. The Historical Society of Michigan says 680. And Guinness has no such category at all.
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The U.P.’s entire copper boom traces back to one man and one report in 1841. What gets left out is that Douglass...
Read storyEveryone remembers U.P. copper and iron. Almost nobody remembers the druggist who struck gold near Ishpeming in 1880 and built Michigan’s only...
Read storyMichigan didn't choose the U.P. It got stuck with it. Then it got rich. If you've ever wondered why Michigan has the...
Read storyInside the movie theatre of the Marquette Branch Prison, a December night in 1921 turned into the darkest chapter in the prison's...
Read storyThe dream of breaking away from Michigan is older than the Mackinac Bridge, and it nearly came true In 1975, the U.P....
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