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Upcoming Events

May 22 - Rummage Sale - Log Cabin 8AM - 2PM
May 30 -First Steam Train - will run every Sunday until Sept. 30th
Jun. 1 - Museum opens
Jun. 5 -Gas Engine show and Steam Train
Jun. 13 - Drive a Steam Locomotive
Jul. 1 - Organ Recital by David Short - Heritage Center 7PM
Jul. 2 - Fireworks, Steam Train 5PM til dusk
Jul. 2 & 3 - Booth in LL Park
Jul. 3 - Marilyn Monsivais on the Accordion - Heritage Center 7PM
Jul. 3 - Parade, Steam Train
Jul. 25 - Steam rides by Land and Rail
Aug. 7 - Courtney Clisch Concert - Heritage Center 7PM
Aug. 8 - Railroad History Days - Steam Train - Railroad Equipment Demo
Sept. 11-12 - Trains, Tractors and More, Open House, Antique Tool Show
Oct. 23 - Ghost Train
Oct. 24 - Steam engine put away for the winter
Dec. 4 - Santa Train - 3PM - 7PM
Under construction - Last edited 5/2/2010

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.

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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