On East Ludington Street at Iron Mountain Street, on the right when traveling west on East Ludington Street.
While in Iron Mountain on Business during 1901, Andrew Carnegie saw the need for a library on the Menominee Iron Range which was then a prospering area. He donated $15,000 for this building. Serving the community for over seventy years, the . . . — — Map (db m106021) HM
Near Kent Street west of Fairbanks Street/Carpenter Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
When the E. P. Allis Company of Milwaukee built this pump in 1890/91, it was heralded as the nation’s largest steam-driven pumping engine. On January 3, 1893, the massive engine, designed by Edwin C. Reynolds, began lifting two hundred tons of water . . . — — Map (db m143663) HM
On South Stephenson Avenue (U.S. 2) at East C Street, on the right when traveling north on South Stephenson Avenue.
Dickinson County
In 1873, John Lane Buell exposed one of the richest deposits of iron ore in the world. His discovery, known as the Menominee Iron Range, led to the development of the area and the subsequent creation of Dickinson County in . . . — — Map (db m106022) HM
On Kent Street at Fairbanks Street/Carpenter Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Kent Street.
Iron Mining began on the Menominee range in 1879, and soon after the first Italians arrived. They were primarily from Piedmont, Trentino, Lombardy, Venetia, Abruzzo Molise, Latium, Friuli, Calabria, Sicily, Emilia-Romagna, and Liguria. By 1910 they . . . — — Map (db m143660) HM
Near Kent Street just west of Fairbanks Street/Carpenter Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
Restoration and preservation of this Cornish Pumping Engine, the largest ever built in the nation, was made possible largely through the efforts of James and Ida Goulette of Iron Mountain. In a life time of service to his fellow citizens, Jim was a . . . — — Map (db m143668) HM
On Blaine Street at Millie Street, on the right when traveling west on Blaine Street.
Maria Santissima Immacolata di Lourdes
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Italian immigrants came to Iron Mountain to work in the iron mines. In 1890, Italian Catholics from the community’s north side organized what was . . . — — Map (db m106024) HM
On East Ludington Street at Iron Mountain Street, on the right when traveling west on East Ludington Street.
Robert C. Hoyle, native of Iron Mountain and a prominent local businessman, was founder of this flourishing historical museum complex. He started at age fifteen to collect artifacts and archival materials relating to Menominee Iron Range history. It . . . — — Map (db m106020) HM
Near North Stephenson Avenue (U.S. 2) 0.2 miles south of Lake Antione Road.
Inventor John T. Jones of Iron Mountain recognized the economic potential of the low-grade iron ore of the Upper Peninsula. He developed a method for processing the ore and built an experimental furnace in 1908, named for his daughter Ardis, to test . . . — — Map (db m226633) HM