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Baraga County operates the county jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages, and vital records, administers public health regulations, and participates with the state in the provision of social services. The county board of commissioners controls the budget and has limited authority to make laws or ...
UP Health System - Portage is a hospital and associated healthcare system based in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. The healthcare system has several clinics stretching as far north as Lake Linden, Michigan and as far south as offices in L'Anse, Michigan and Ontonagon, Michigan .
The Department of Community Health was created in 1996 through an executive order merging Department of Public Health (as Community Public Health Agency), Department of Mental Health, Medical Services Administration from the Department of Social Services, responsibility for Liquor Control Commission, Licensing, Monitoring and Accreditation and Division of Occupational Health from Department of ...
L'Anse (/ l ɑː n s / LAHNSS) is a village and the county seat of Baraga County, Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. [5] [6] [7] The population was 1,874 at the 2020 census. [8] The village is located within L'Anse Township in the Upper Peninsula and partially inside the L'Anse Indian Reservation. [9] [10]
Keweenaw Bay is an unincorporated community in Baraga County in northern Michigan. [1] The community is on the shore of Keweenaw Bay on US Route 41. The community of Baraga is approximately 6.5 miles to the south and Chassell on Portage Lake in Houghton County is approximately 14 miles to the north on Route 41. [2]
Baraga (/ ˈ b ɛər ə ɡ ə / BAIR-ə-gə) is a village in Baraga County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,883 at the 2020 census. [5] The village is named after Bishop Frederic Baraga. The village is located in Baraga Township on the Keweenaw Bay on Lake Superior at the junction of US 41 and M-38.
Assinins was founded in 1843 by Bishop Frederic Baraga, [2] who came to the area at the invitation of Chief Edward Assinins. [3] Assinins was the first person to be baptized at the site. [3] Baraga built the Old St. Joseph Orphanage and School on the site in 1860; wings were added to the building in 1866 and 1877. [2]
Keweenaw County (/ ˈ k iː w ə n ɔː /, KEE-wə-naw) is a county in the western Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census , the county's population was 2,046, making it Michigan's least populous county. [ 3 ]