Keweenaw County (Images of America) by Jennifer Billock,Jo Urion

By Jennifer Billock,Jo Urion

even if the biggest Michigan county with land and water mixed, Keweenaw County can also be the main carefully populated—at least in the course of the vicious winters. The inhabitants blooms in the summer whilst seasonal citizens are available in droves to get pleasure from their little slice of heaven. The county used to be shaped in 1861 as an offshoot of Houghton County and now encompasses the pinnacle half the Keweenaw Peninsula, the place Michigan’s higher Peninsula juts north into Lake enhanced. in the course of the 1800s, the world was once on the heart of the copper mining growth, spurring development of fortress Wilkins in Copper Harbor. the army outpost served to maintain order between miners and the area’s local population, the Ojibwa. relocating via time, Keweenaw County might additionally function a hub for the maritime, fishing, and lumbering industries ahead of changing into the inn group it's today.

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