U.P. history
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The U.S. Built Only Three Steel Dams. One Is in the Keweenaw — and the Wooden Dam It Replaced Outlasted It.
The Redridge Steel Dam is one of only three steel dams ever…
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An Iron Mining Company Hired a Famous Architect for a Piece of Machinery. Ishpeming Got Two Egyptian Obelisks.
The Cliffs Shaft Mine headframes in Ishpeming are Egyptian Revival obelisks designed…
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Two Men From Detroit Bought a Roadside Burger Shack in 1983 and Wintered In It. It’s Now One of the Most Beloved Bakeries in the U.P.
The Jampot monks arrived on the Keweenaw in 1983, moved into an…
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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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There’s a 30-Foot Ruler Standing Beside US-41 in the Keweenaw. One Winter, the Snow Nearly Topped It.
The Keweenaw snow thermometer north of Mohawk marks a 390.4-inch winter. The…
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A Scrabble Loss Cost One Man 10 Years of Letter-Writing. He Got “Yooper” Into the Dictionary — and They Botched the Entry.
The Yooper definition entered Merriam-Webster in 2014 after a Delta County prosecutor…
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A Retired Firefighter Near Newberry Has Bottle-Fed 48 of His 50 Bears Himself. It Started With One Orphaned Cub.
Dean Oswald dreamed of having a bear since childhood. Forty years, 240…
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Manistique Built a Road Four Feet Below the River It Crosses. Ripley’s Put It in “Believe It or Not.”
A paper mill needed water power, a dam would have flooded the…
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A Schooner Sat Perfectly Preserved Under Green Bay for 105 Years. Bringing It Up Killed It in 25.
The Alvin Clark went down in 1864 and came up whole in…
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Michigan’s Highest Point Keeps Getting Dethroned by Inches. The Latest Culprit May Be Hikers’ Boots.
Mount Arvon took the crown from Mount Curwood by 11 inches in…
