Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gogebic Iron Range
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Preservation Planning on the Gogebic Iron Range of Wisconsin and Michigan
Ironwood, Hurley, and the Gogebic Range
Author: Matthew LieschPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439616906
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Situated on the south shore of Lake Superior, the Gogebic Iron Range of Michigan and Wisconsin exudes a strong sense of place. During the 1880s, a mining boom lured settlers, investment, and controversy. Investors from Milwaukee, Chicago, and Cleveland hoped to become rich, but many were pulled into scams or poorly managed mines and ended up losing their money. After iron stocks crashed, mining investors were more cautious. Many mining locations were abandoned, but towns such as Ironwood, Bessemer, Wakefield, and Hurley grew. For over 80 years, iron mining gave the Gogebic Range distinctive ethnicity and settlement patterns resulting in its unique cultural landscapes. The physical setting enhances the drama of the Gogebic. Lake-effect snowfall results in picturesque yet harsh winters, and thundering waterfalls have long attracted visitors.
Keweenaw National Historical Park, Michigan
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Michigan's Historic Preservation Plan
Author: Michigan. History DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Wisconsin Land and Life
Author: Robert Clifford OstergrenPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299153540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into hidden valleys. . . . These are images of Wisconsin's land and life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book, Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. To read it is to come away with a sweeping view of Wisconsin's geography and history: the glaciers that carved lakes and moraines; the soils and climate that fostered the prairies and great northern pine forests; the early Native Americans who began to shape the landscape and who established forest trails and river portages; the successive waves of Europeans who came to trade in furs, mine for lead and iron, cut the white pines, establish farms, work in the lumber and paper mills, and transform spent wheatfields into pasture for dairy cattle. Readers will learn, too, about the platting and naming of Wisconsin's towns, the establishment of county and township governments, the growth of urban neighborhoods and parishes, the role of rivers, railroads, and religion in shaping the state's growth, and the controversial reforestation of the cutover lands that eventually transformed hardscrabble farms and swamps into a sportsman's paradise. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps, this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.
Engineering and Mining Journal
Author: Publications of the Michigan Geological Survey, Department of Conservation
Author: Ashland County Farmland Preservation Plan
Author: Ashland County (Wis.). Farmland Preservation CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Retracement and Permanent Monumenting of the Michigan-Ohio Boundary
Author: Samuel Stinson GannettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary disputes
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Crystal Falls Iron-bearing District of Michigan
Author: Julius Morgan ClementsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description