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Hurley is located on the Montreal River, the border between Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The city is on U.S. Highway 2 (US 2), and is the northern terminus of US 51, and is about 18 miles (29 km) south of Lake Superior. Hurley had its origins in the iron mining and lumbering booms of the 1880s. [4]
Fall River is a village in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States, along the North Fork of the Crawfish River. The population was 1,801 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area .
In the early 1960s, the U.S. Air Force established a Strategic Air Command (SAC) Radar Bomb Scoring site atop Norrie hill to track and score high altitude and treetop level simulated bomb runs by B-52s and B-47s on targets in the Ironwood area. A monument is erected south of Hurley, Wisconsin to remember those crew members killed in two B-47 ...
Newspapers.com has more than 580,000 pages of Fall River news, including the Evening Herald, Daily Evening News and the Fall River Globe — but nothing after 1923. It also requires a monthly ...
Community members snap photos of the new Lake Ivanhoe historical marker on October 15, 2022, in Burlington. The marker commemorates what is considered to be Wisconsin’s first Black-owned resort ...
0.25 mi (0.40 km). W of jct. of Plummer Mine Rd. and WI 77: Pence: Headframe from which miners were lowered into a 2367 foot iron mine that operated from 1904 to 1924. Now the last headframe standing in Wisconsin. [11] 5: Springstead
As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,137, [1] making it the third-least populous county in Wisconsin. Its county seat is Hurley. [2] It was named for the valuable iron ore found within its borders. [3] [4] The county overlaps with small parts of the Bad River and Lac du Flambeau Indian reservations.
The finish line is located on Silver Street in Hurley, where the race finishers are served a traditional Finnish stew called Mojakka. The Paavo Nurmi was established in 1969 and is considered to be the oldest running marathon in Wisconsin. [1] [2] The 2020 and 2021 runnings of the Paavo Nurmi Marathon were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic ...