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- Herausgeber: Modern History Press
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024
Old Victoria, a ghost town from the copper boom, shows what life was like homesteading in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Over the years, some of the site has been destroyed or has collapsed; still, many of Old Victoria's original homesteads remain standing. Thanks to the efforts of a local group, The Society for the Restoration of Old Victoria, quite a few of the buildings have been restored and refurnished in their original condition. Unlike Fayette, the U.P.'s best-known ghost town and a small shipping port on Lake Michigan, Victoria is a remote, rugged mining town, buried in the Ontonagon wilderness.
Thus, Victoria is one of the least-known yet most interesting attractions of the Upper Peninsula. The town was carved out of one of the harshest sections of the rugged U.P. landscape. Situated at the top of a Michigan mountain, part of the picturesque Ontonagon River Gorge, Victoria is within the Gogebic Mineral Range. When visiting here, you get the feel for what it was like to struggle in a remote mining town.
Join Mikel B. Classen, the Yooper History Hunter, on a romp through time with two dozen photographs that portray more than a century of Old Victoria!
"Both history and travel guide, this thoroughly researched and gracefully written book -- illustrated with both historical and contemporary photographs -- is a must-read for people planning visits to lesser-known parts of the western Upper Peninsula." -- Jon C. Stott, author Paul Bunyan in Michigan
"Old Victoria: A Copper Country Ghost Town, the inaugural volume of the Yooper History Hunter Series, offers a colorful, up-close look at the life of a small mining town in one of the remotest corners of Michigan. Painstakingly researched, but an effortless read." --Victor R. Volkman, Marquette Monthly
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Old Victoria: A Copper Mining Ghost Town in Ontonagon County
Copyright © 2024 by Mikel B. Classen. All Rights Reserved.
Additional artwork by Joanna Walitalo.
Book #1 in the Yooper History Hunter Series
Learn more at www.MikelBClassen.com
ISBN 978-1-61599-819-7 paperback
ISBN 978-1-61599-820-3 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-61599-821-0 eBook
Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
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Ann Arbor, MI 48105 toll free 888-761-6268
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Contents
Photos in this Book
Introducing: The Yooper History Hunter Series
A Taste of Homestead Upper Peninsula
The Legends of Old Victoria Begin
The Victoria Mine and a Village Grows Up
Accidents and a Hard Life
Death and Resurrection
Victoria Area Points of Interest
About the Author
Photos in this Book
A Pair of Cabins at Old Victoria
Historical Victoria: New Homes (1914)
Old Victoria Cabin – Visitor Center
Replica of the Ontonagon Boulder
Old Victoria - Victoria Mine Site
Old Victoria - Hoist Building Remains
Victoria 1899 Mine
Constructing the Taylor Hydraulic Air Compressor
In the Compressor - 375 feet underground.
Blow Off from the Compressor
Blow Off from the Compressor – Frozen in the Winter
Compressor Explosion Aftermath (1914)
Locomotive Powered by Compressed Air Storage Tank
Victoria Schoolhouse Renovation (1903)
Victoria Renovated School
Victoria Miners with Candles to Light their Way
Victoria Miner Riding the Skip to the Bottom
Miners with Candles and Controversial Compressed Air Drill
Old Victoria – Restored Log Cabin
Old Victoria - Mining Captain’s Residence
Old Victoria Dam
O-Kun-De-Kun Waterfalls
Ontonagon Lighthouse
Introducing: The Yooper History Hunter Series
The Yooper History Hunter Series is a new concept in history books by Mikel B. Classen, award winning historian and Modern History Press. These full-color books have a short format so they can be read quickly and priced lower. Part travel information combined with a comprehensive history of the subject matter, the Yooper History Hunter books focus on small individual subjects creating an indispensable collection of U.P. history.
Mikel shows the way that the reader can become a Yooper History Hunter by using contemporary and historical photography as well as directions to uncover these amazing remnants of Michigan’s past. A classic hybrid of then and now, the reader becomes the explorer seeking out those ghostly remains of the past.
Mikel B Classen, Yooper history hunter himself, puts a modern day adventure between the pages of each book. He hands out the keys to unlocking the past while journeying through the present. After 40 years of researching history and exploring the Upper Peninsula with camera and pen, he reveals places and stories that made the U.P. what it is today, a place of fascination, beauty and significance.
