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Keweenaw National Historical ParkRuins at the Quincy Mine invite contemplation about the activities that once occured there.
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Keweenaw National Historical Park
Park Newspaper

Keweenaw National Historical Park annually publishes a park newspaper to assist visitors in planning their trips to the park and our park partners, the Keweenaw Heritage Sites. You can download a copy of the newspaper here or request that a copy be mailed to you. The park newspaper is distributed to many visitor information and tourism centers throughout Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

 

Download the 2009 edition of the park newspaper 
(Adobe PDF - 4.41 MB file)

In this issue:
Maps
Keweenaw Heritage Sites Information
Union Building Exhibit Planning
Saving the Quincy Smelter
2009 Interpretive Programs
Park Bookstore

Miners pose outside the #5 Tamarack Mine shaft in this 1908 photograph by Adolph F. Isler. Keweenaw NHP Archives.  

Did You Know?
The Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan was home to one of our nation's first mineral rushes. Prospectors seeking copper travelled there in the middle 1840's, a few years before the "49'ers" sought gold out west. The story of this rush is told today at Keweenaw National Historical Park.

Last Updated: May 15, 2009 at 12:57 EST