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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]
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 ...
The Montreal River issues from Pine Lake in the town of Oma in eastern Iron County in northern Wisconsin. It flows initially northwardly to the boundary between Iron County and Gogebic County, Michigan, then northwestwardly along the state line, past the 'twin cities' of Hurley, Wisconsin and Ironwood, Michigan. Downstream of Ironwood and ...
Iron County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. 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.
Mercer is an unincorporated census-designated place located in the town of Mercer, Iron County, Wisconsin, United States. Mercer is located on US Highway 51 (US 51) 20.5 miles (33.0 km) south-southeast of Hurley. Mercer has a post office with ZIP code 54547. [2] As of the 2010 census, its population is 516. [3]
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 ...
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The building was constructed in 1892–1893 as the town hall for the former town of Vaughn, which was then in Ashland County. [2] [3] Before its completion, the majority of the building was leased to the newly formed Iron County, and although under the lease terms the "court room" space was to be used primarily for meetings of the town council, it quickly became the county courthouse.