Historical Markers in Ishpeming, Michigan

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Historical Markers in Ishpeming, Michigan

1 ► Michigan, Marquette County, Ishpeming — S139 — Ishpeming: Historic Ski Center —

On Palms Avenue (U.S. 41) just east of North 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east.

The sport of skiing was introduced to America in the nineteenth century by Scandinavian immigrants. The first ski club in Michigan and one of the first in the country was formed at Ishpeming in 1887. It held its first public ski meet on February . . . — — Map (db m205532) HM

2 ► Michigan, Marquette County, Ishpeming, Tilden Township — Italians on the Marquette Iron Range —

On West Euclid Street east of Lakeshore Drive, on the right when traveling east.

The Iron Range opened in the 1840s, but it was not until the early 1860s that the first Italians settled the area. Coming from Tuscany, Venice, Lombardy, Piedmont, Calabria, Naples, and Sicily. They settled in Negaunee, Ishpeming, and Gwinn . . . — — Map (db m226615) HM

3 ► Michigan, Marquette County, Ishpeming — Swedes on the Iron Range —

On West Euclid Street east of Lakeshore Drive, on the right when traveling east.

From the late 1860's to the early 1870. there was a critical need for experienced underground miners. As large numbers of the Irish labor force in the area had departed for jobs in open pit mining in Colorado, the Cleveland Mining Company went . . . — — Map (db m226659) HM

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