Then & Now: The Daily Mining Gazette invites its readers to step into the past. Included in Thursday’s edition are historic photos from the Copper Country. Readers are asked to identify the location shown and share what they know about this location, or a memorable experience. A collection ...
Although Then & Now recently featured the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company Library, we felt its contribution to the Calumet-Laurium-Keweenaw area was significant enough to warrant revisiting it. The building was constructed, in 1898, of mine rock, “each piece being selected and carfully laid with the aim to a harmonious whole,” stated the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. semi-centennial edition of the Keweenaw Miner, 1866-1916. When opened, it was considered a very large library, containing 6,000 volumes on its racks. So popular was the library that just 17 years later, in 1915, its stacks ...
The Portage Lake Lift Bridge is a Copper Country icon, and is the focus of photographs taken by countless tourists and locals alike. There are, however, many who remember when the lift bridge replaced a previous structure that had a swing span, which is shown in the photograph, taken in the ...
A vintage undated photograph shows the old bridge spanning Fanny Hooe Creek and the original Fort Wilkins guardhouse, before the road was widened and paved. Notice the horse-drawn freight wagon beneath the portico of the guardhouse. When constructed in 1844, the guardhouse stood at the main entrance to the fort. Anyone having business at the post would first check in at this structure, which also had holding cells. For a brief period, the guardhouse was used as a county jail. The state’s northernmost bridge, the current Fanny Hooe Creek Bridge was added to the National Register ...
Judging by the vehicle in the lower left corner, the archival photo was taken sometime in the 1950s. This is the former St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, located on Quincy Street, in Hancock. The building on the left is the parish rectory. Walt’s Gas For Less is in the right ...
The Daily Mining Gazette invites its readers to step into the past. Included in today’s edition is one historic photo from the Copper Country. Readers are asked to identify the location shown and share a memorable experience of the location. A collection of reader responses will be ...
