Dickinson
Cornish Pump
Iron Mountain, MI
When the E. P. Allis Company of Milwaukee built this pump in 1890-91 it was heralded as the nation’s largest steam-driven pumping engine.
Dickinson County
Iron Mountain, MI
In 1873 John Lane Buell exposed one of the richest deposits of iron ore in the world.
Maria Santissima Immacolata
Iron Mountain, MI
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Italian immigrants came to Iron Mountain to work in the iron mines.
Menominee Iron Range
Quinnesec, MI
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.
Norway Spring
Norway, MI
In 1878 a sawmill was erected here as the first industry in the Norway-Vulcan area.
The Ardis Furnace
Iron Mountain, MI
Inventor John T. Jones of Iron Mountain recognized the economic potential of the low-grade iron ore of the Upper Peninsula.