Menominee Iron Range photographs
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The Menominee Iron Range is located along the Menominee River in present-day Dickinson County, Michigan; Iron County, Michigan; Florence County, Wisconsin; and Marinette County, Wisconsin. Mining began in the region in the 1870s. Producted peaked in the 1920s but largely ended in the 1930s.
This collection of photographs from the Menominee Iron Range includes images from Dickinson County, Michigan, Iron County, Michigan, Florence County, Wisconsin, and northern Marinette County, Wisconsin. The photos were compiled by Dickinson County historian William Cummings. The photographs themselves date primarily from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, though some photographs are from as late as the 1960s.