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unusual facts about Upper Peninsula of Michigan



Chester Marcol

Marcol is a resident of the Upper Peninsula community of Dollar Bay, Michigan.

De Tour Village, Michigan

The village is at the extreme eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in Detour Township, at the turning point for the shipping channel connecting the St. Mary's River with Lake Huron and the Straits of Mackinac.

Frederick Miller

Frederick Miller once owned a tract of land in the Michigan's Upper Peninsula that is now Craig Lake State Park.

Iven Carl Kincheloe, Jr.

In September 1959, Kincheloe Air Force Base in Michigan's Upper Peninsula was renamed in his honor; the base closed in September 1977.

Rockland the Opera

It is based on a long-forgotten miners' strike at the town of Rockland in Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Ontonagon County.

Torch Bay

Torch Bay is a freshwater bay connecting Torch Lake with Portage Lake in Houghton County on the Keweenaw Peninsula, which juts into Lake Superior from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

United States presidential election in Michigan, 1996

In typical form for the State, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan turned out mainly Democratic, and the Lower Peninsula turned out divided, but more Republican - with the notable exception of Detroit's highly populated Wayne County, which voted overwhelmingly Democratic.


see also

Huron River

Little Huron River in the northern Upper Peninsula of Michigan that empties into Lake Superior

Little Brown Jug of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

The Little Brown Jug of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is a trophy awarded each year to the winner of the high school football game played between Sault Ste. Marie and Newberry.

Mining Journal

The Mining Journal, the predominant daily newspaper of Marquette, Michigan and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Peninsula Railroad

Peninsula Railroad of Michigan, a predecessor of the Chicago and North Western Railway on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan