Michigan Ghost Towns: A Guide to the State’s Abandoned Industrial Settlements
Between 1845 and 1880, the Keweenaw Peninsula produced more copper than any other region in the world, yet today many of the towns that fueled this…
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Michigan Upper Peninsula Ghost Towns: A Travel Map and Historical Guide
Imagine standing in the middle of a silent street where, a century ago, the air hummed with the roar of iron furnaces and the shouts of copper…
The Captivating History of Fayette, Michigan – From Iron Boom to Historic Ghost Town Park – (1867-1959) – Video
The history of Fayette, Michigan, begins in 1867, when manager Fayette Brown of the Jackson Iron Company chose a remote harbor on Michigan’s Garden Peninsula to build a new blast furnace. This site offered everything the iron works needed: a protected …