Tag: Fayette

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…

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 history of Fayette, Michigan, begins in 1867, when manager Fayette Brown of the Jackson Iron Company chose a remote