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A low fieldstone picnic shelter with a shingled roof standing on mown grass among pines, with wooden picnic tables in the foreground.

Outdoors & Travel · 2 min

A Road Commissioner Kept Buying Extra Land in 1918 and Gave It to the Public. A Century Later It Is a State Park.

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A preserved black steam locomotive and tender standing on a short length of track under an open timber shelter, the number 5 visible on the cab, with gravel underfoot and autumn trees behind.

History & Culture · 2 min

In 1951 a Lumber Company Put an Entire U.P. Town Up for Sale. The Ads Came With One Condition: Whoever Bought It Had to Employ the People.

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A two-storey cream and green clapboard building with a long covered platform canopy along its front, hung with ICE CREAM and Coca-Cola signs and a DAIRY BAR sign under the canopy, with picnic tables on the gravel lot outside.

History & Culture · 3 min

The Copper Country Had Streetcars for 32 Years. The Ice Cream Window at the Ahmeek Station Has Been Open More Than Twice That Long.

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A white clapboard church with a square tower and open belfry topped by a weathervane, standing behind a picket fence on Mackinac Island around 1900, with a wooded hillside and a large hotel building behind it.

History & Culture · 3 min

The Oldest Church Building Still Standing in Michigan Went Up on Mackinac Island in 1829. One Word in That Claim Is Doing a Lot of Work.

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The Douglass House hotel in Houghton around 1908, a long light brick building with an arched ground-floor loggia and ornate corner cupolas, seen from above with streetcar tracks and trees along the street below.

History & CultureHoughton, Houghton CountyAug 19, 2026

A Copper Town Hired Two Men Out of Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Office to Build Its Hotel in 1899. One of Them Went On to Build Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpieces.

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NewsMarquette, Marquette CountyAug 18, 2026

The State Suspended NMU’s Truck Driving School on August 5. NMU Says It Disagrees. Here’s Where That Leaves Students Mid-Course.

4 min read

A concrete breakwater runs from the foreground straight out into Lake Superior to a small dark lighthouse, with the far shore low on the horizon under a clear blue sky.

History & CultureJacobsville, Houghton CountyAug 17, 2026

There Was a Roller Coaster on the Lake Superior Shore in 1908. The Only Practical Way to Reach It Was by Boat.

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A sepia 1910 photo postcard of the Ardis Furnace plant in Iron Mountain, showing a timber headframe, a tall concrete building and a smoking stack, with the word SUCCESS hand-lettered in white on the building and the caption ARDIS FURNACE, IRON MT MICH lettered along the bottom edge.

History & CultureIron Mountain, Dickinson CountyAug 17, 2026

He Named the Furnace After His Daughter and Wrote SUCCESS Across the Photograph. Two Years Later He Had Lost His House.

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NewsMarquette, Marquette CountyAug 17, 2026

Landfilling a Ton of Trash in Marquette County Costs $98. Recycling It Costs Nothing. A New $1.4 Million Is Aimed at That Gap.

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NewsIron Mountain, Dickinson CountyAug 16, 2026

Michigan Handed Out $224 Million to Fix School Buildings. Two U.P. Districts Got Any of It.

3 min read

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The Barton Company Built About 250 Theatre Organs. Six Are Still Playable. One of Them Is in Ironwood.

A Road Commissioner Kept Buying Extra Land in 1918 and Gave It to the Public. A Century Later It Is a State Park.

In 1951 a Lumber Company Put an Entire U.P. Town Up for Sale. The Ads Came With One Condition: Whoever Bought It Had to Employ the People.

The Copper Country Had Streetcars for 32 Years. The Ice Cream Window at the Ahmeek Station Has Been Open More Than Twice That Long.

The Oldest Church Building Still Standing in Michigan Went Up on Mackinac Island in 1829. One Word in That Claim Is Doing a Lot of Work.

More from Yooper Hub, in time order

A Copper Town Hired Two Men Out of Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Office to Build Its Hotel in 1899. One of Them Went On to Build Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpieces.

The State Suspended NMU’s Truck Driving School on August 5. NMU Says It Disagrees. Here’s Where That Leaves Students Mid-Course.

There Was a Roller Coaster on the Lake Superior Shore in 1908. The Only Practical Way to Reach It Was by Boat.

He Named the Furnace After His Daughter and Wrote SUCCESS Across the Photograph. Two Years Later He Had Lost His House.

Landfilling a Ton of Trash in Marquette County Costs $98. Recycling It Costs Nothing. A New $1.4 Million Is Aimed at That Gap.

Michigan Handed Out $224 Million to Fix School Buildings. Two U.P. Districts Got Any of It.

Coffee tastes better in the U.P.

Sault Ste. Marie: what do you call it?

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