Michigan history
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He Started the U.P.’s Copper Rush. Then He Warned Everyone to Stay Away.
The U.P.’s entire copper boom traces back to one man and one…
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Everyone Thinks the U.P. Is Copper and Iron. In 1880 a Druggist Found Gold.
Everyone remembers U.P. copper and iron. Almost nobody remembers the druggist who…
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Why Michigan Has the Upper Peninsula: A Lost War, a Consolation Prize, and a Copper Fortune
Michigan didn’t choose the U.P. It got stuck with it. Then it…
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The Only Time in Michigan History a Prison Warden Was Killed Happened in the U.P.
Inside the movie theatre of the Marquette Branch Prison, a December night…
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The 1913 Italian Hall Disaster Is the Copper Country’s Darkest Day, and Calumet Still Remembers
On Christmas Eve more than a century ago, a false cry of…
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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…
