Gitche Gumee: Agate And History Museum
The Gitche Gumee: Agate And History Museum is located in Grand Marais in Michigan’s Alger County. This is the ideal place for any rock hound and history buff. Learn about the geology and minerals found in the region and local history. The gift shop includes unique gift items, mineral art, jewelry, agates and mineral specimens. […]
Museum Ship Valley Camp
Museum Ship Valley Camp is located in Sault Ste Marie in Michigan’s Chippewa County. Explore inside the 550 foot (170m) long Valley Camp Great Lakes Freighter. This unique Maritime Museum has over 100 exhibits inside its 20,000 square foot cargo hold. Some items exhibited are historical artifacts, paintings, recovered shipwreck items, and two lifeboats from […]
River of History Museum
The River of History Museum is located in downtown Sault Ste Marie in Michigan’s Chippewa County. The museum chronologically follows the history of the St. Mary’s River and Sault Ste Marie for 8,000 years, from the glacial period to the present day. From the rich history of the Anishinaabe Native Americans to French settlers, fur […]
Wheels of History Train Museum
The Wheels of History Train Museum is located in Brimley in Michigan’s Chippewa County. Climb aboard this 1905 wooden railroad passenger car and caboose and learn the history of the Brimley area. See fascinating historical exhibits and artifacts from the railroad, telephones, logging, fishing, Great Lake ships and local family histories . There is also […]
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located on Whitefish Point, Paradise in Michigan’s Chippewa County. The museum’s campus includes the museum building, the 155 year operating Whitefish Point Light Tower, light keepers quarters, the Surfboat House and gift shop. Take a self guided tour of the Museum building and exhibits of the haunting world of […]
Tahquamenon Logging Museum
The Tahquamenon Logging Museum is located in Newberry along the shore of the Tahquamenon River in Michigan’s Luce County. Take a tour of the museum and see artifacts and a slide presentation of early logging in Michigan. The museums facilities include a cook shack, original family dwelling, a music pavilion, picnic area, nature trail, boardwalk […]
Miners Memorial Mural
The Miners Memorial Mural is located in downtown Ironwood in Michigan’s Gogebic County. The mural celebrates Ironwood’s mining heritage and depicts 111 actual miners. It was painted by artists Kelly Meredith and Sue Martinsen in 2012 on a building on the corner of Suffolk and McLeod Street and has been a popular attraction in the […]
Tower of History
The Tower of History is located in Sault Ste Marie in Michigan’s Chippewa County. It was built in 1968 and stands 210 feet (64 m) above the city. Visitors are taken up in an express elevator to observation decks where they can get a vantage point up to 1,200 square miles (1931 km) with views […]
Soo Locks
The Soo Locks is located in Sault Ste Marie in Michigan’s Chippewa County on the St Mary’s River between Lake Superior and Lake Huron. The set of parallel locks enable ships to travel from Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes and see and average of 10,000 vessels annually. The Soo Locks was built in […]
Calumet Historic District
The Calumet Historic District takes up much of the village of Calumet in Michigan’s Houghton County. The district is historically significant due to the area’s copper mining history. Copper was discovered here in 1864 and by 1870 was producing more than half of the country’s copper. The district includes the sites and properties that were […]
Quincy Mine
The Quincy Mine is located in Hancock in the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan’s Houghton County. It mined copper and was founded in 1846 and operated until 1945. At the time, the Quincy number 2 shaft was the world’s longest shaft at 1.75 miles (2.8 km) long. In the years that it operated this mine produced […]
