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 ...

QUESTION: What was the first European sailing vessel to sink on the Great Lakes? ANSWER: Le Griffon disappeared on the return trip of her maiden voyage in 1679.