Museum

Houghton County Historical Society


Upcoming Events June 7-8 Trains & More June 19- Organ Concert Connie Boruta July 3-4 Betsy Ross Sundaes in Lake Linden Park July 3-6 Steam Train July 19- Courtney Clisch Concert ~ 7 pm Aug 2-3 Railroad History Days Aug 3-HCHS Historical Home Tour Aug 14 Organists of the Keweenaw Aug 23-24 Third Annual Quilt Show Sept 6-7 Third Annual Harvest Market Sept 13-14 Trains, Tractors and More, Open House and Antique Tool Show Oct 25 Ghost Train Dec 7 Santa Train Please see our calendar for more details.** The Heritage Center and/or Log Cabin are available to rent anytime for your event. Contact us.

A Special Sense of Place...

	You can almost smell the biscuits as you wander through a country kitchen, and see how Great Grandma cooked her meals.
	Stroll through the Bridal Room and experience the romance of vintage fashion.

	Mother's spinning, sewing, knitting, and weaving, making the family's duds, stretched many a mine worker's wages.

	Music. Music, Music! Every mine had a band, and the Copper Country sang in every language. Music helped the long winters to pass...

	Come join us in Grandma's parlor! We've got ragtime on the victrola!

	Logging histroy in the Keweenaw is often overlooked. It provided fuel, timber, and jobs! See the largest collection of memorabilia in the western U.P.

	See the first X-ray machine in the Copper Country, the "painless" dentist equipment, a company pharmacy, and a mine body basket. Located in the original clinic rooms of the C & H Mill Office.

In addition to all of this, the Museum is home to Copperland Copper Art Center, featuring hand crafted copper gifts and one-of-a-kind art works.The Museum campus features a huge outdoor collection of antique heavy equipment, wagons, buggies, blacksmithing equipment, and much, much more...

Come and see... A "Bull Ladle" - A Calumet & Hecla smelter tool... A "Fanny" - for loading copper slabs onto waiting lake steamers... A "Lorry" and copper charging "Paddle"...An iron "Kibble" - from an early (1850's) mine salvaged from Lake Superior. Come and learn about how copper ore was milled and smelted in the largest copper mill in the world.

A crew of C&H workers at the Hubbell smelter manhandle a “fanny” loaded with copper cakes onto a narrow-gauge flat car for a trip to the Lake Linden docks.

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