
From
the early 1900s until the
mid-1950s copper mining was the
economic engine of the western
Upper Peninsula. Tens of
thousands of immigrants from
northern Europe, Italy, England,
and Canada made their way to the
Copper Country to find work and
improve their lives. The Copper
Range Historical Museum attempts
to recreate what life and work
were like for these miners,
loggers, farmers,
businesspeople, homemakers, and
children. Museum displays bring
to life the people who built the
towns and villages of Atlantic
Mine, South Range, Baltic, Trimountain, Painesdale, Winona, Toivola, Donken, Redridge, Beacon Hill, Edgemere, and Freda. Collections include photographs, books, and artifacts from the everyday lives of ordinary people.
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