There was no mine in the whole Lake Superior mining district which worried the miners more than the Negaunee, located in the city bearing the same name. When opening the shaft in the late 1880s, it was soon discovered that the ore body was beneath a great bowl-shaped basin of quicksand into ...
MARQUETTE — Lake Superior defines Marquette. Our city began as a safe harbor on the south shore of the largest of the Great Lakes. Iron Bay, as our port came to be known, shipped hundreds of millions of tons of iron ore to a rapidly industrializing America. One family arguably did more than ...
Early water supply, sanitary waste disposal MARQUETTE — Prior to municipal water, wastewater systems, and indoor plumbing, water use in the home was facilitated through the use of water pitchers and chamber pots. A water pitcher and basin would have been used on a washstand in a bedroom. ...
CHRISTMAS — Christmas is a small town in Alger County along M-28, approximately three miles west of Munising. It wasn’t always called Christmas. Ojibwe people used the land that would one day become Christmas as a favorite camping ground in the summer as they migrated to Grand Island ...
Today, there is no more potent symbol of the Christmas holiday than an ornamented evergreen tree. However, the use of Christmas trees was not widespread in America’s earliest days. Decorating trees for the holiday came into fashion as America’s cities swelled with German immigrants in the ...
One cannot study the history of Marquette’s St. Luke’s Hospital without noticing numerous references to a man named Frank Stolpe. In the Women’s Edition of the Marquette Mining Journal in January 1897, the recently formed Marquette City Hospital, soon after to be renamed St. Luke’s, was ...
MARQUETTE — At a time when the concept of social class divided people in America, two Marquette men formed an authentic friendship that transcended economic status. One was John Munro Longyear, the wealthy land speculator who founded the exclusive Huron Mountain Club. His friends knew him as ...
LANSING — Residents are reminded there may be assistance available for those struggling to keep their homes warm this winter season. The Winter Protection Plan is a deferment plan that is designed to ease the burden of high winter utility bills. It helps protect seniors and low-income gas ...
Q: In 1891 John Longyear submitted plans to the Army to create a harbor of refuge, including two breakwaters of a combined length of 3,300 feet. Where was this? a. Au Train Bay b. Big Bay c. Partridge Bay d. Middle Bay A. C
MARQUETTE — As we get tucked in for another winter here in the north woods, most of us are fortunate enough to have heat in our home and food in the cupboard. For those who do not have either, the community of the Upper Peninsula is very strong and supportive through multiple charitable ...
By ROSEMARY MICHELIN Marquette Regional History Center MARQUETTE — As part of the Marquette Regional History Center’s 100th birthday celebrations, we’re recognizing people who have also joined the “U.P. Centenarians’ Club” by reaching that milestone birthday. This ...
MARQUETTE — Members of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Chapter 1900 will hear a presentation by Marquette-area journalist Brian Cabell at their next regular meeting at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 28. Members will also elect 2019 chapter officers. Brian Cabell is a career ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Republished from the Forsyth Sagas, April 2004 Last week, we discussed the founding of New Swanzy by John Q. Adams, his son, Eugene W. Adams and a business partner, Henry E. Sorenson, in 1908. To find out what happened in the nascent village, read on. The only restriction that ...
The year was 1908 and Teddy Roosevelt was President. Orville and Wilbur Wright had made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk only five years earlier, and the world was still six years away from the beginning of World War I. Locally, the new town of Gwinn was well underway with its construction ...
Fred Rydholm was born on East Hewitt Avenue in Marquette on March 11, 1924. He remembered his childhood during the Great Depression fondly. His family was hardworking and of modest means, but generous to everybody. Fred recalled happily sharing meals with the homeless on the family back porch ...
MARQUETTE — After the recent article “The miracle of penicillin makes its way to Marquette in 1944” was published, the History Center received a call from Marquette resident Sarah Livermore Pelto about her experience with penicillin as a child at St. Luke’s Hospital in ...
Archaeologists from the Industrial Heritage and Archaeology program at Michigan Tech University, directed by Dr. LouAnn Wurst, have teamed up with the Hiawatha National Forest to investigate Camp Au Train in Alger County near Munising. Camp Au Train was established for the Civilian ...
By ANN HILTON FISHER MRHC Volunteer Special to the Journal Recently a 97-year-old friend took a fall as she was leaving our house after dinner. As she was being stitched back together in the emergency room at UP Health System- Marquette, she told the doctor about a broken arm she got ...
During the last several months I repaired several items of clothing from the museum collection. This was not a restoration project, only simple mending so the clothes can be used in displays. Actual repair was minimal as many of these fabrics are adversely affected by age and cannot tolerate ...
MARQUETTE — Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was an important founder of modern anthropology in the United States. An attorney and politician by profession, Morgan is best known in the world of anthropology for his ethnographic work recording the culture of the Iroquois nation in his home ...