{"id":11825,"date":"2024-08-26T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T01:12:08","slug":"copper-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?p=11825","title":{"rendered":"Copper Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the Keweenaw Peninsula…<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

…which was a center of copper mining for well over 100 years. The Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company began mining near Copper Harbor in 1844.  From 1850 to 1881, Michigan produced more than three-quarters of the country’s copper, and in 1869, the state produced over 95%.  Calumet & Hecla Foundry is the last to close on the Peninsula, in 1968. Between the mid-1840s and 1968, Keweenaw Peninsula mines produced an estimated 10.5 billion pounds of copper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Four days to visit multiple sites of 1<\/strong><\/mark> new National Park<\/mark><\/strong>:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Keweenaw National Historical Park<\/strong><\/mark> (#256), where the stories of people and copper in the Keweenaw Peninsula have been intertwined for more than 7,000 years. Indigenous Peoples made copper into tools and trade items. Investors and immigrants arrived in the 1800s in a great mineral rush, developing thriving industries and cosmopolitan communities. The mines have since closed, but the National Park Service manages a Visitor Center in Calumet and coordinates with 22 Keweenaw Heritage Sites<\/mark><\/strong> that together, tell the story of how the Copper Industry left its mark on the land and people of the Keweenaw Peninsula<\/mark><\/strong>. We managed to do a Ranger Talk\/Walk and visit 6<\/mark><\/strong> of the Keweenaw Heritage Sites<\/mark><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n