Houghton
Birth Of Professional Hockey
Houghton, MI
In 1903-04 the Portage Lake Hockey Club became the first hockey team to pay all of its players.
Calumet Theatre
Calumet, MI
One of the first municipal theaters in America, the Calumet opened on March 20, 1900, “the greatest social event ever known in...
Finnish Lutheran Church
Jacobsville, MI
In 1886 a group of Finnish immigrants banded together to organize the Jacobsville Finnish Lutheran congregation.
Grace Methodist Church
Houghton, MI
Methodism had considerable success in Cornwall, an important mining area in southwest England.
Hancock
Hancock, MI
The Quincy Mining Company platted Hancock in 1859, a decade after the company began mining Keweenaw copper.
Houghton County
Houghton, MI
Organized in 1845, Houghton County once comprised the entire Keweenaw Peninsula.
Italian Hall Tragedy
Calumet, MI
By December 1913, thousands of area copper miners had been on strike for five months.
Michigan Tech
Houghton, MI
In 1885 the Michigan Mining School was established here by the state.
St. Ignatius Loyola Church
Houghton, MI
The roots of the Catholic Church in the Portage Lake area are associated with Bishop Frederic Baraga, the “Snowshoe Priest,” who...
St. Paul the Apostle Church
Calumet, MI
St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church was established in 1889 by Slovenian immigrants who came to this area to work in the mines of the Copper...
Suomi College
Hancock, MI
In the 1880s large numbers of Finns immigrated to Hancock to labor in the copper and lumber industries.
Suomi Synod
Calumet, MI
On March 25, 1890, nine Lutheran congregations, representing twelve hundred Finnish immigrants, assembled at Trinity Lutheran Church in...
The Copper Country
Calumet, MI
Long before Columbus reached America, Indians extracted native copper in the Lake Superior region and worked it into articles which were...
Trinity Episcopal Church
Houghton, MI
Many of the Cornish miners, storekeepers, and mining captains who immigrated to this area during the Copper Country mining boom...