On Copper Peak Road, 0.5 miles north of Black River Parkway (County Route 513), on the left when traveling north.
At an altitude of more than 1500 feet, 300 feet above the surrounding terrain, this location was the southernmost area in Michigan to offer a prospect of producing copper in commercial amounts. The Chippewa Copper Mining Company began work here in . . . — — Map (db m45043) HM
The Gogebic was the last of the three great iron ore fields opened in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. Beginning in 1848 with Dr. A. Randall, federal and state geologists had mapped the ore formations almost perfectly long before any ore . . . — — Map (db m45035) HM
Honoring the men and women from this community who served their country.
Sponsored jointly by the Bessemer Woman’s Club and the Michigan State Highway Department
Dedicated May 30, 1949 — — Map (db m45037) HM
On Beech Street at East Houk Street, on the right when traveling south on Beech Street.
This site is dedicated to the memory of those who developed the Ironwood area, the immigrants, farmers, loggers, railroaders, and iron ore miners.
Iron ore was first discovered here by James A. Wood in 1882 and the Norrie "A" mine shaft was sunk . . . — — Map (db m201422) HM
On McLeod Street at Day Street, on the right when traveling east on McLeod Street.
Here lived Solomon S. Curry, pioneer in the mining industry of the Ironwood area. Curry, a progressive, broad-minded man, was also instrumental in the building of the city of Ironwood, which through his efforts, grew from a wilderness to one of the . . . — — Map (db m45047) HM
This building served as City Hall for Ironwood which was settled in 1885 as the commercial center of the Gogebic iron mining district. Ironwood incorporated as a city in 1889 and erected the building a year later. Designed by George Mennie, this . . . — — Map (db m201419) HM
The first iron mining was done on the Gogebic Range in 1884 and Italian miners soon followed first settling in neighboring Hurley, WI. The majority of Italians were from: Trentino, Piedmont, Venetia, Abruzzo-Molise, Calabria, and Sicily. By 1910 . . . — — Map (db m201420) HM
On Beech Street north of East Houk Street, on the right when traveling south.
Discovery of the Iron Ore Deposit
In the summer of 1882, A. Lanfear Norrie led an iron ore expedition in the far western Upper Peninsula. He and his crew set up camp along the Montreal River at what is now Ironwood. Captain James "Iron” Wood, . . . — — Map (db m201423) HM
On Iron King Road, 0.5 miles East Ayer Street, on the right when traveling west.
On this site, on October 8, 1871, geologist Raphael Pumpelly of Harvard University discovered one of the iron ore formations that created Gogebic County’s “boom era”. The Newport Mine, named for Pumpelly’s home in Rhode Island, began operations . . . — — Map (db m242372) HM
This recreational area was named in honor of A. Lanfear Norrie, who in 1882 began to explore for iron ore on the Gogebic Range. His discovery resulted in the opening of the Norrie Mine in Ironwood. Soon other mines, such as the Ashland, Aurora, . . . — — Map (db m45038) HM
On Bonnie Street, 0.2 miles south of E. Ayer St.,.
On Friday, September 24th, 1926, a disaster occurred at the Pabst Mine. "G" Shaft, located approximately 300 yards southwest of this spot, collapsed. 3 men riding in the cage freefell 2,600 feet. 43 men were trapped on the 8th level, 727 feet below . . . — — Map (db m45051) HM
On 1238 Wall Street, 0.1 miles east of Luxmore Drive, on the right when traveling east.
When they say "cold as heck," they're talking about this place, Kaukauna, Wisconsin. The birthplace of the Stormy Kromer Cap. It was here, in 1903, that George "Stormy" Kromer finally lost his cool. And his hat
He was an engineer on the . . . — — Map (db m77345) HM
On Van Buskirk Road at Pioneer Road, on the right when traveling north on Van Buskirk Road.
In 1909 the newly formed Erwin Township School District built this one-room schoolhouse. The school served the area’s Finnish-born mining, logging, and farming families. The township bought the school in 1928 and altered it for use as the Town Hall . . . — — Map (db m103460) HM
