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National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Keweenaw County, Michigan
The following is a list of National Register of Historic Places, Registered Historic Places in Keweenaw County, Michigan. __NOTOC__ Early history Copper was discovered in the Keweenaw in the 1830s; soon after, the US government built Fort Wilkins near Copper Harbor, Michigan, Copper Harbor to maintain order in the area. Keweenaw County was split off from Houghton County, Michigan, Houghton County in 1861, with the county seat in Eagle River, Michigan, Eagle River. The early government and commercial buildings in Eagle River are now a Eagle River Historic District, Historic District. Isle Royale, although split off into its own county in 1875, was reunited with Keweenaw County ten years later, and remains part of the county. Mining Like Houghton County to the south, Keweenaw County's history includes much reference to copper mining. In particular, one of the earliest mines in the area, the prehistoric Minong Mine Historic District, Minong Mine on Isle Royale, is listed as a his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Map Of Michigan Highlighting Keweenaw County
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as Physical body, objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to Context (language use), context or Scale (map), scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Royale Light
The Isle Royale Light, or Menagerie Island Light, is a lighthouse within Isle Royale National Park, in Keweenaw County, northern Michigan, United States. Description It is located in Lake Superior on Menagerie Island, the most easterly of the group of small islands at the opening of Siskiwit Bay, near the southern shore of Isle Royale. The light's residence has steel shutters for protection from stormwater damage, as this portion of Lake Superior has very severe storms. History The Isle Royale Light was built in 1875 of red sandstone, as a U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse. — ''comprehensive history of the Isle Royale Light, documented by Terry Pepper. It was placed on the |
SS Henry Chisholm
The ''Henry Chisholm'' was a wooden freighter that sank off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1898 and the remains are still on the lake bottom. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. History The ''Henry Chisholm'' (Official number 95610) was built in 1880 at Thomas Quayle & Sons shipyards in Cleveland, Ohio, which was considered the best wooden shipbuilders on the Great Lakes. She was a 265-foot wooden steam-powered freighter, 39 feet in breadth and 20 feet in depth, carrying three masts and a double expansion steam engine with twin Scotch boilers capable of producing 1707HP, powering a single screw. The hull was reinforced with steel and iron strapping, and was the largest wooden "steam barge" ever built in Cleveland, approaching the practical size limit for a wooden vessel of its type. The ship cost $125,999 to build, and was launched on August 28, 1880. The ship was built for Alva Bradley of Cleveland, and named for Henry C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Glenlyon
The ''Glenlyon'' was a freighter built in 1893; it was sunk off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1924 and the remains are still on the lake bottom. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. History The ''Glenlyon'' (Canadian Official #126660; American #81427) was constructed in 1893 by F. W. Wheeler & Company as the ''William H. Gratwick'' for John Mitcell & Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The ship was a steel-hulled, steam-powered package freighter, long with a beam of , a depth of , and a cargo capacity of 3,800 tons. The ship had two decks and three masts. It was launched on February 4, 1893, and was the first ship to sport one of Wheeler's newly produced engines, a triple expansion steam engine. The ''William H. Gratwick'' was sold multiple times: in 1899, 1902, 1907, and, in 1910 to the Chicago & Duluth Transportation Company. The ship hauled both package freight and bulk cargo, as well as, for a short time, passengers for b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Puritan (ID-2222)
USS ''Puritan'', a civilian transport built by Craig Shipbuilding Company in Toledo, Ohio Toledo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. A major Midwestern United States port city, Toledo is the fourth-most populous city in the state of Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and according ..., was launched in 1901, and lengthened by in 1908. The ship sailed on the Great Lakes in passenger service, was purchased by the U.S. Navy at the end of the war, and returned to passenger service after the war. The ship sank in 1933 near Isle Royale in Lake Superior, and its wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Civilian service prior to World War I She mainly operated on Lake Michigan in passenger service between Chicago, Holland, Michigan, Holland, and Benton Harbor, Michigan, Benton Harbor. USS ''Puritan'' ''Puritan'' was purchased by the U.S. Navy during World War I in April 1918 and Ship commissioning, commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Emperor
SS ''Emperor'' was a steel-hulled Canadian lake freighter in service between 1911 and 1947. She was built between 1910 and April 1911 by the Collingwood Shipbuilding, Collingwood Shipbuilding Company in Collingwood, Ontario, for Inland Lines, Ltd., of Midland, Ontario. She entered service on May 3, 1911. ''Emperor'' was sold to Canada Steamship Lines of Montreal, Quebec. Under the ownership of Canada Steamship Lines, she carried a wide variety of cargoes, but most frequently iron ore to Point Edward, Ontario, where it would be transported to Hamilton, Ontario, by train. After the opening of the fourth Welland Canal, ''Emperor'' carried the ore directly to Hamilton. She was involved in several accidents throughout her career. After discharging a cargo of coal in Fort William, Ontario, on June 3, 1947, ''Emperor'' headed to Port Arthur, Ontario, where she loaded of iron ore bound for Ashtabula, Ohio. She left Port Arthur at 10:55p.m. (Eastern Time Zone, EST). The weather was cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PS Cumberland
The ''Cumberland'' was a wooden-hulled side paddlewheeler built in 1871; it was wrecked off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1877 and the remains are still on the lake bottom. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. History The ''Cumberland'' was constructed in 1871 by Melanchthan & Simpson of Port Robinson, Ontario for Perry & Company, a Toronto steamship line. The ship was launched on August 8, 1871. The ''Cumberlands design was typical of the sidewheel steamers built for Great Lakes travel in the 1840s-1880s. It was a wooden-hulled, sidewheel paddleboat, 208 feet in length at the keel and 214 feet in length total. The ship had a beam of 28 feet (48 feet overall), a draft of 10 feet 6 inches, and measured 750 tons gross. The ship was powered by a 400HP walking beam engine with a single boiler and possessed paddlewheels 30 feet in diameter. The ''Cumberland'' was built for Northern Railway of Canada, the parent company of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Chester A
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SS America (1898)
''America'' was a packet boat transporting passengers, mail, and packages between settlements along the North Shore of Lake Superior, an inland sea in central North America. Built in 1898, ''America'' sank in Washington Harbor off the shore of Isle Royale in 1928, where the hull still remains. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. History ''America'' (Official No. 107367) was a steel-hulled ship, built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company and launched on April 2, 1898. The ship was 184 feet long, 31 feet wide, and 11 feet in depth. She had a gross tonnage of 486 tons and a net of 283 tons. She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine and two Scotch boilers, manufactured by the Dry Dock Engine Works, delivering 700HP. Less than a month after her launch, ''America'' began a daily run, transporting both passengers and packages on Lake Michigan between Chicago and Michigan City, Indiana. The ship remained on this run until 1901; in 1902 sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Algoma
''Algoma'' was a screw steamer built in 1883. She sank off Mott Island near Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1885 and some of her remains are still on the lake bottom. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. History ''Algoma'' (Official #85766) was built in 1883 by Aitken & Mansell in Glasgow, Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, for use by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. ''Algoma'' was long, with a beam, a depth of , and had a gross register tonnage of 1,750 tons as originally built. It was powered by a compound steam engine driving a single propeller, screw, and had two Mast (sailing), masts in case of an engine breakdown. The ship was designed to accommodate 240 First class travel, first-class passengers and 500 in steerage. Canadian Pacific ordered three ships from Aitken & Mansell: ''Athabasca'', Ceremonial ship launching, launched on July 3, 1883; ''Alberta'', launched on July 12, and ''Algoma'', launched on July 31. The three ships we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sand Hills Light
Sand Hills was an active lighthouse on the shore of Lake Superior is on private property and is currently closed to the public. It is located in Ahmeek in Keweenaw County in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which is the northern part of the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. History From 1857 to 1908, Eagle River Light was the only lighthouse between the Keweenaw Waterway and Eagle Harbor Light. With the end of the copper boom in the 1870s the Eagle River, Michigan harbor started to decay. "By the 1890s, it seemed the only ship coming into the harbor was the lighthouse service tender." It was recommended to build a new lighthouse at Sand Hills where most of the lake traffic passing and to decommission Eagle River. A lighthouse at Sand Hills was authorized by Congress in 1893, but no funds were allocated for its construction. Meanwhile, the Eagle River Light was decommissioned and sold in 1908, leaving no navigation light in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Of Ages Light
The Rock of Ages Light is a U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse on a small rock outcropping () approximately west of Washington Island and west of Isle Royale, in Eagle Harbor Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan (''see map below''). It is an active aid to navigation. History Overview The period between 1852 and the beginning of the 20th century saw great activity on the Great Lakes by the United States Lighthouse Board. Between 1852 and 1860 26 new lights were built. Even as the United States Civil War and its aftermath slowed construction, a dozen new lights were still lit in that decade. In the 1870s, 43 new lights were built on the Lakes. The 1880s saw more than one hundred lights constructed.''Beacons in the Night'', Clarke Historical Library. |
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