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Italian immigrant Alfred Angeli founded Angeli Foods in 1917 at 402 W. Adams St. in the growing mining community of Iron River, Michigan. [2] [3] It was the first self-service grocery store to open in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the first to offer a frozen food locker, and the first to offer a five-day workweek. They were also the Upper ...
Michigan produces wines, beers and a multitude of processed food products. This wide variety of crops grown in Michigan make it second only to California among U.S. states in the diversity of its agriculture. [4] The state has 54,800 farms utilizing 10,000,000 acres (40,000 km 2) of land which sold $6.49 billion worth of products in 2010. [5]
In Dearborn, Michigan, adjacent to Detroit, city officials have taken a proactive approach to embrace food trucks. On a windy September Friday, they inaugurated the first of three new Peace Parks ...
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is bounded on land by Wisconsin to the southwest and west; and in territorial waters by Minnesota to the west, Ontario to the west, north and east, and the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin extends into Lake Michigan east of the western Upper Peninsula. Five Michigan Upper Peninsula counties include nearby major islands ...
Calumet (/ ˌ k æ l j uː ˈ m ɛ t / ⓘ KAL-yoo-MET or locally / ˌ k æ lj ə ˈ m ɛ t / KAL-yə-MET) is a village in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.The village is located within Calumet Township, Houghton County, and had a population of 621 at the 2020 census.
It is named for the Keweenaw Peninsula, which projects out to the north of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Established in 2004, Keweenaw is the largest brewer in the Upper Peninsula (as of 2021 [update] ); their products are sold there and in the nearby states/regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
The state of Michigan acquired Kitch-iti-kipi in 1926. History records that John I. Bellaire, owner of a Manistique Five and Dime store, fell in love with the black hole spring when he discovered it in the thick wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the 1920s. It was hidden in a tangle of fallen trees, and loggers used the nearby area as ...
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