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The Jackson Mine is an open pit iron mine in Negaunee, Michigan, extracting resources from the Marquette Iron Range.The first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, [3] Jackson Mine was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [1]
The Schoolcraft Furnace site is an abandoned iron furnace site located just east of Munising, Michigan, within the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore near the Munising Falls Visitor Center. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1] It is also known as the Munising Furnace.
The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum in Ishpeming and the Michigan Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee each celebrate the history of the iron ore deposit and its miners. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] A 47-mile-long (76 km) [ 10 ] hiking trail from Republic to Marquette, called the Iron Ore Heritage Trail , also provides access to the area's historical sites.
The original Negaunee depot burned in 1879. [2] This Negaunee depot was built in 1884 by the Marquette and Western Railroad as a freight and passenger depot. [ 3 ] After only a year of service, the entire line was bought by a competitor, the Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad. [ 3 ]
WLUC-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Marquette, Michigan, United States, serving the Central and Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan as an affiliate of NBC and Fox. Owned by Gray Media , the station has studios on US 41 / M-28 in Negaunee Township , and its transmitter is located on South Helen Lake Road in Republic Township ...
Negaunee: The Negaunee State Bank Building is a two-story structure with a triangular footprint. It was built in 1912 on the site of an earlier bank building destroyed by fire. The building housed the Negaunee State Bank until 1933, when the bank failed during the Great Depression. 31: Park Hotel and Cabins: September 4, 2013
Michigan Journal (1854–1868) Detroit "the first German newspaper in Detroit, that was founded in 1854 by two brothers: August and Conrad Marxhausen." [43] The Michigan Tradesman, Petoskey [citation needed] The Nordamerikanische Wochen Post (1980–2022) Warren [43] The Owosso Independent, Durand (1968–2024) [52] Saginaw Daily Journal ...
The Negaunee region served as the center of U.S. iron ore production from about 1880 until approximately 1900, when this role was taken over by iron mines on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range. The Michigan Iron Industry Museum opened in 1987 close to the Carp River Forge site on the Carp River where Michigan iron ore was first forged in 1848. [2]