NEGAUNEE — Teal Lake, located within the city of Negaunee, is a gem for the West End of the County. It covers an area of 466 acres and has a maximum depth of 32 feet. Shallow shorelines are very limited with most of the lake being greater than 3.5 feet deep. Teal Lake has provided a very ...
As most of my readers know, I typically write to promote Negaunee. I am always grateful for and, I think, knowledgeable, about the things I write about. In general, my topics are local businesses. Some may have just opened or have been open for a while - they are hidden gems that make our ...
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 War, Merry traveled to Europe to study the local mining methods and technology and was impressed with the use of steam powered locomotives. Merry arranged to purchase a small locomotive about 12 feet long and nine feet high, a vertical boiler model from the Alexander Chaplin Co. in Glasgow, ...
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 ...
