Superiorland Yesterdays
EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.
30 years ago
FOREST LAKE — “A major highway disaster” is how one state official is describing Friday’s collapse of part of highway M-94 into Ackerman Lake about nine miles south of Munising. Paul Michelin, district operations engineer for the Michigan Department of Transportation in Newberry, said this morning he will not know for a day or two how much it will cost to rebuild the highway. He said the destruction is awesome, however. “There’s approximately 300 feet of road that is laying in the lake,” he said. “It slid like snow off a roof.” The hole is 15 to 20 feet deep and will require enormous amounts of fill to stabilize, he added. Ackerman Lake next to the collapse was estimated at 50 to 60 feet deep. Michelin said he is not sure at this point whether the highway can even be built in the same location.
60 years ago
NEGAUNEE — In an effort to use, as far as possible, what has hitherto been a neglected source of information upon a variety of subjects, there has been established at the Negaunee Public Library a clipping file.