From Lake Superior the main range of mountains looks like a crouching porcupine, thus their name. Machinery, rock dumps, and old adits are ghostly reminders of forty mining ventures in the years from 1846 to 1928, none of which succeeded. Some . . . — — Map (db m269015) HM
On this site Raymond Dick and P.J. Hoffmaster, two men who loved these mountains, saw in them an opportunity to save something of of our vanishing wilderness heritage. As a result, the Porcupine Mountains were acquired in 1944 that they might . . . — — Map (db m290888) HM
1846 - The Rush is on!
America's first mineral rush in the mid-1840s brought speculators, scientific men, capitalists and miners to Michigan's "Copper Country." Unlike the later "gold rush" of this country, most of these miners were not . . . — — Map (db m185730) HM
