Plummer Mine Headframe Interpretive Park
Dedicated to the iron miners and their families who helped build the Penokee Iron Range — — Map (db m45418) HM
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
Ashland County was not willing to have its eastern most township, the Town of Vaughn, “secede” to form a new county in 1887.
The Town incorporated Hurley’s rich iron ore mines. The community’s wealth and population were booming. Iron . . . — — Map (db m45526) HM
Discover the site of a pre-European Native American settlement and permanent area headquarters where Ojibwe bands congregated. Wooden burial structures protect and mark graves of these ancient bands. When Chief Edwards moved towards Lac Vieux Desert . . . — — Map (db m103463) HM
Leon Lawrence Lewis
1888-1954
Lawyer, Activist, Spymaster
Leon Lewis, a Jewish Los Angeles attorney, ran an anti-Nazi spy ring from 1933 to 1941. Born in Hurley, Wisconsin, Lewis obtained his law degree in 1913 from the . . . — — Map (db m290980) HM
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