By NATE HEFFRON City manager City of Negaunee Special to the Journal NEGAUNEE — The city of Negaunee continues its forward momentum following the successful completion of the Downtown Engagement or Streetscape project. Two new grant awards were announced in the last two weeks. This ...
ISHPEMING — On New Year’s Day of 1889, the Iron Ore published a special edition. It was the only time the newspaper ever did this. No photographs, but instead the newspaper was filled with wonderful illustrations by Will Bradley. He wasn’t working for the Iron Ore but travelled back to Ishpeming to help. For us, this special edition provides a unique look back at life in Ishpeming in 1889. The special edition was much larger than the normal edition. There were 8 pages devoted to history and institutions in Ishpeming, including an overview of the mines in Ishpeming, while the ...
By VIRGINIA PAULSON Negaunee Historical Society NEGAUNEE — Negaunee High School has one of the oldest interscholastic programs of any school in the Upper Peninsula. It dates back to the 1894-95 school year, only 15 years after the first graduating class of 1879. The only activities of ...
ISHPEMING — “We have several letters for our boy Billy, but he asks that they not be printed because the war department is rather against it. Anyhow, Billy says he doesn’t want the notoriety. He tells us he is well; that he hasn’t been sick a single minute since he left home; that he is very busy on very particular work; that he has been disassociated from his old regiment for a time; that he often works all night in dangerous service; that the fight is going to string out for a time, but that finally the cause of the allies is going to triumph; that the Hun is going to be ...
NEGAUNEE — The problems old mining towns have trying to rise up from the ashes don’t always adapt perfectly to economic realities of modern life. As mines close, local businesses either wither, or go with the flow, most wither. It was 1974, 50 years ago, that the Negaunee Economic ...
ISHPEMING — There was a space of over two months between published letters from William Newett. This reflects the fact that Company C of the 107th Engineers (a renaming of their regiment) journeyed across the ocean to England, France and the battlegrounds of World War One. Father George did not know exactly when his son left or what ship he was on as wartime censorship forbade the release of this information. We know that William Newett departed Hoboken, N.J. on the 30th of January 1918, thanks to Ancestry and the publication of a Master List from the U.S. Army transport service. ...
