Your Northwoods Happiness Hub! Visit the Porcupine Mountains and Ontonagon area to adventure, explore, and relax outdoors. There are miles of Lake Superior shoreline, acres of old-growth forests, miles of trails, and miles of rivers to enjoy. The Porcupine Mountains and Ontonagon Area in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is waiting for you!
My great-grandparents on my mother's side came over from Finland in the early 1900s and settled in Green. My great grandfather worked in both the woods and the White Pine Copper mine. I was born in Ontonagon but moved away when I was quite young.
When I lived in michigan especially Flint as a kid rolled all over the u.P of michigan with my Parents I was highly interested in The porcupine mountains, after I got all the military.II started going up there and hiking all over it.That was from Nineteen seventy Six all the way to nineteen eighty 2, the only trail in the porcupines. I never hiked with the lake superior shoreline. Got a lot of nice pictures. Plus I killed a lot of mosquitoes in black flies
Copper was mined by the Phoenicians and taken back to the the mid-east/levant/ Mediterranean sea area. The u.p. was where all the copper that was used in the copper and bronze ages was taken from. They've traced it back. Its the same copper.
Did a deep dive into one branch of the family. Arrived Boston area 1638 with a set of other families. By 1759 they together with other 'ship' famlies, settled into logging, arrived in Southern NB, Canada. That's when a 'pattern' developed. 1st 'gen' settled on forest land beside a river. Once cleared the old folks stayed with eldest son and became farmers. The rest packed up and moved to a new area with horses, oxen, waggons, sleds, tools and basics for a sawmill. Moved from S NB to the Miramace and began again, repeating a move to Restigouche area after the great fire. In the 1886 a branch picked up and went to Wisconsin/Michigan eventually moving on after another generation divide to Seattle & Vancover areas. Discovered 'Logging' was very high-tech in it's day and resulted in lots of genes left behind in the USA & Canada.
I was in a bar called Stubb's museum Bar in Ontonagon about 30 some yrs. Ago . It was noon , and 5 people were in this Bar . An older gentlemen had us laughing hysterical .... As he joked about Delivering The Mail with an Airplane . How could I forget that place !!
@@guynorth3277 ok. Sounds like you are pretty sure about it based on the available information you’ve researched. I wasn’t making any absolute statement in my own mind; I enjoy initiating ideas for the sake of conversation; just throwing out an idea. I’ll look into your research and thank you. On my end, I consider that Solomon was King/Caesar/Czar/Kaiser/Pharaoh of the earth for a time. It’s likely that he was at least aware of such a large concentration of copper there. Upper Peninsula was navigable in his day. He is famous worldwide for many reasons but one for the buildout of his kingdom and another for his trade with King of Tyre; their combined fleet of Navy traversed the earth. Have a good weekend.
I lived in Houghton-Hancock. Beautiful country. In 1972 I was the first woman bartender at the Douglas House Saloon in downtown Houghton. So many wonderful memories. I cherished the beautiful winters. Thank you for this interesting video. This is the first time I've ever seen pictures of American Indians in the UP.
I fished in the Ontonagon River just upstream from town. This was 1981, I believe. The river was pink. I caught a respectable smallmouth bass on a Hot-n-Tot. The bass was pink too.
I'm currently reading through Larry Lankton's books about the Lake Superior copper mining boom of the 1800s and this video does a great job summarizing the basics of how mining came to be in the area. The Keeweenau is, of course, the more famous mining area but we definitely can't forget about the mines around the Porkies like Nonesuch, Adventure, and White Pine! As a tourist the guided tours at Adventure Mine and the quaint community of downtown Ontonagon are absolutely worth leaving the nearby state park to visit.
