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The Keweenaw Snowmobile & Keweenaw ATV Club received $20,000 for its Calumet Trailhead Project. The Keweenaw Land Trust ...
COPPER HARBOR, MICH. — Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula is kicking off summer with a pair of Memorial Day weekend events for adventure seekers, including the rare opportunity to mountain bike ...
The Keweenaw County Sheriff’s Department is leading the search for two missing persons after what they called a water emergency early Saturday morning near Copper Harbor. According to a press release ...
PAINESDALE, MICH. -- The Painesdale Mine & Shaft, part of a century-old copper mining operation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has been named the newest Keweenaw Heritage Site. The designation ...
CALUMET, Mich. (WLUC) - The Keweenaw Summer Celebration highlights wellness, individuality and creativity. This is the sixth year of the celebration.
The Keweenaw Peninsula. Pronounced kee-win-awe, the peninsula was formed by ancient lava flows, giant ice sheets, and mid-continental rift. The region is also known as the Copper Country. The quest ...
Most of the copper used in the United States from just before the Civil War until about 1945 came from the Keweenaw area and was used to electrify houses, stores, factories and cars.
Copper Harbor's rich history traces back to the native Ojibwa people and the area's copper mining boom in the mid-1800s. The town was a significant port during this period, giving it its ...
Jane Yoder-Short lives in Kalona. I hadn’t thought of copper complications for years but then I heard about the mining controversy surrounding Oak Flat.Keweenaw copper pollution memories returned.