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Why this story today: Fayette’s preserved furnaces, workers’ homes, and abrupt 1891 shutdown turn the U.P.’s iron-boom history into a place readers can still walk through.

The preserved buildings of the Fayette ghost town on Snail Shell Harbor in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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Fayette: The U.P. Ghost Town Frozen in 1891

Fayette is the U.P.'s preserved ghost town, an iron company town abandoned in 1891 with charcoal still loaded in its furnaces. Why it died in just…

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