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Ishpeming (/ ˈ ɪ ʃ p ə m ɪ ŋ / ISH-pə-ming) is a city in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. Located in the Upper Peninsula , the population was 6,140 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] less than it was in the 1950s and 1960s when the Iron ore mines employed more workers.
By 1873, the city of Ishpeming was incorporated. In 1874, a disastrous fire destroyed most of the buildings in the Main Street district. New buildings, primarily of brick and stone, were constructed in the next few years to replace the lost buildings. [2] Ishpeming boomed in the 1880s, and continued to expand until the turn of the century.
He clerked in a store for five years before emigrating to the United States and settling in Marquette, Michigan in 1868. He moved around, clerking at other stores, before settling permanently in Ishpeming in 1873. He eventually opened his own meat market and general store in about 1877, at first with a series of partners, but eventually on his ...
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop—is the ... but also the history of the ... Ishpeming, Michigan [114]
The Mather Inn is a hotel in Ishpeming, Michigan. The inn served as housing for the cast of the classic 1959 movie Anatomy of a Murder, and was the place where Duke Ellington composed the movie's score. [3] [4] [5] It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]
The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum is a former iron mine, now a heritage museum, located on Euclid Street between Lakeshore Drive and Spruce Street in Ishpeming, Michigan.The museum, operated by "Marquette Range Iron Mining Heritage Theme Park Inc.", celebrates the history of the Marquette Iron Range.
Ishpeming: The City Hall in Ishpeming was built during the boom iron-mining years, constructed from 1889 to 1891 using a design by Milwaukee architect Demetrius F. Charlton. It is a two-story, rectangular structure built of Portage Entry sandstone with a rounded entry arch, decorative sandstone sills and lintels above and below the windows, and ...
The Marquette Iron Range was designated as a Michigan registered historic site in 1957, listed as S-0035. [4] 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.