Sam Cohodas was born in 1895 in eastern Poland. His father, Aaron Cohodas sold produce, like his father before him. The family of 10 were Jewish and lived in horrid conditions. Relatives of the family started making their way to America, including Sam’s uncle, Sam Weksler who moved to ...

NEGAUNEE —The Yankee represented the coming of steam to Michigans’ Iron range. It represented ingenuity and change in the way mining took place in the mid 1800s. The origin of the Yankee began with Henry Merry, the manager of the Jackson Iron Company. Shortly after the American Civil ...

NEGAUNEE — Smallpox was the most dreaded and deadliest disease known to humans. It spread fast because it was an airborne disease. Symptoms were coughing, sneezing, fever, sore throat and a rash. Smallpox was spread by close contact with an infected person. Those most affected were ...

NEGAUNEE —The city of Negaunee’s water supply was produced from the city water works station on the shores of Teal Lake, but it all ended on June 1,1994, when the city began operating a joint public groundwater supply with the city of Ishpeming. It was in the mid 1980s when the state ...

MARQUETTE — When Roger LaBine was younger, he often drove his grandfather to the Ottawa National Forest to hunt porcupines. “In the fall after the leaves had fallen, he’d take the .22 when we’d go out and hunt porcupine,” LaBine said. “That was one of my grandfather’s favorite ...