U.P. history
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Michigan’s First Rocket to Reach Space Didn’t Launch From Florida. It Launched From the End of a Dirt Road Past Copper Harbor.
From 1964 to 1971, NASA and the University of Michigan fired research…
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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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This U.P. Town Mined So Much Iron the Ground Gave Way. Its People Picked Up Their Houses and Moved.
Iron was found under Negaunee in 1844, and for a century the…
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The Deadliest Fire in American History Reached Into the U.P. the Same Night Chicago Burned
On October 8, 1871, while Chicago burned, the deadliest wildfire in American…
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The U.P.’s Grand Island Was Once a Private Game Preserve Stocked With Caribou and Antelope
Around 1900 the president of Cleveland-Cliffs turned Grand Island into a private…
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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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This U.P. Ghost Town Comes Back to Life One Sunday Every July, and Has Since 1907
Central Mine grew into a Cornish copper town of more than 1,200…
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Hemingway Made the U.P.’s Two-Hearted River Famous. He Was Actually Fishing a Different River.
Hemingway named his famous story for the Two Hearted River, but his…
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People Were Mining the U.P.’s Copper 7,000 Years Ago, and the 1840s Prospectors Found Their Pits
Native peoples mined the U.P.’s copper as far back as 7,000 years…
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A Whiskey Smuggler Got Caught in the U.P. After the Crew Drank Too Much of Their Own Cargo
During Prohibition, whiskey poured across the U.P.’s Canadian border, sometimes with the…
