Michigan Ghost Towns: Of the Upper Peninsula (Michigan Ghost Towns III) - Softcover

Dodge, R. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934884021 ISBN 13: 9780934884020

Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan, 1973

Synopsis

Michigan: the way it was. Michigan Ghost Towns compiles settlements and communities that have faded into Michigan's history and legend: ""Baraga County's $2,000,000 Ghost Railroad"" (Reprinted from the September 23, 1964 Issue of the L'Anse Sentinel by permission) A few rusty nails, some old telegraph poles and a bed grown over with brush and trees in the Huron Mountain district is all that remains today of a $2,000,000 railroad which never ran a train of cars and failed to bring in a cent of revenue. For several years men labored in the wilderness to lay 35 miles of tracks through rocky gorges and swamps from the mining town of Champion (now a ghost town) to Huron Bay. At Huron Bay an immense ore dock, buildings and homes were erected in preparation for a rush of business which the promoters of the Huron Bay and Iron Range Railway thought would make them wealthy. Pequaming: One of the largest ghost towns in the Upper Peninsula with buildings still standing is Pequaming. Located about 8 miles north of L'Anse, the huge smokestacks and water towers are visible from the L'Anse waterfront where the remains of the once prosperous industrial town lies at the tip of a tree-covered peninsula jutting out into the Keweenaw Bay. Emerson: Named after Chris Emerson, Saginaw millionaire lumberman and considered by some an eccentric. Thousands of tourists travel highway M-123 between Eckerman and Paradise each summer and visit the Tahquamenon Falls area, unaware that they pass near the site of this one-time lumbering and fishing village at the mouth of the Tahquamenon River where it empties into Lake Superior. What was once a road to the site is now a marsh- and weed-grown trail almost impassable by automobile. A spring flowing from a weed-covered mound is about all that remains where the town once was.

About this title

About the Author

Born in Lansing, Michigan in 1918, Roy L. Dodge was a descendant of Michigan pioneers.  He started investigating Michigan ghost towns in 1954.  He was a  well-known writer, with many articles appearing in leading newspapers around the state.  In 1970, he wrote the first of what would become his extremely popular series on Michigan ghost towns.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0934884021
• ISBN 13: 9780934884020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 301