Which paper first used the term “Yoops,” the precursor of the title “Yoopers,” to refer to the residents of the Upper Peninsula? a. The New York Sun, b. The Detroit News, c. The Mining Journal, d. The Chicago Herald

The picture is, perhaps, the starkest example of how much Marquette has changed in the past 75 years. The photograph, taken in 1950 from the roof of the current Mining Journal building, evokes old New York City more than it does the Marquette of anyone’s memory. On a corner that’s now ...

ISHPEMING — West of West Ishpeming lies the small unincorporated community of Greenwood and the Greenwood Reservoir, located in Ely Township. The blue waters of the basin and the surrounding forests conceal the area’s mining and farming history. In 1865 the Marquette & Ontonagon ...

MARQUETTE — The Works Progress Administration was one of several New Deal work relief programs founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. By the time it disbanded in 1943, the program had employed more than 8 million workers, or about one fifth of the nation’s ...