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
When the E. P. Allis Company of Milwaukee built this pump in 1890/91, it was heralded as the nations 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
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
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
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
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 communitys north side organized what was . . . — — Map (db m106024) HM
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
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
In 1878 a sawmill was erected here as the first industry in the Norway-Vulcan area. John O'Callaghan was owner of this mill, which supplied early mining lumber needs until 1902. This spring was caused by a 1094-foot hole drilled in 1903 by the . . . — — Map (db m252948) HM
This range, named for the Menominee River which runs through part of it, is one of three great iron ore districts in the Upper Peninsula. In 1846 Wm. A. Burt, the discoverer of the Marquette Iron Range, noted signs of iron ore in the Crystal Falls . . . — — Map (db m252951) HM
Fumee Falls: Many weddings take place during the
summer months on a foot bridge that crosses Fumee
Creek. Picture taking at the falls is quite common
using the falls as a backdrop. A funeral service has
even been held here at the park. The . . . — — Map (db m254483) HM
