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Iron County, Michigan
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Iron County is located in the southwestern part of Michigan�s Upper Peninsula, bordering Wisconsin. Iron County was named after the iron ore that was discovered
there in 1846. A surveyor had noticed an abnormal compass reading on the Paint
River near Crystal Falls and five years later another surveyor found a five foot
high outcrop of iron ore. By 1880, the Crystal Falls Iron Company was formed.,
which led the way for others. In 1891, during a poker game of commissioners to
see which town would become the County Seat, two of them left the game, stole
the county records and ran off to Crystal Falls, where the courthouse was built
after a quick and shady "referendum" was passed. Twenty-three of the
areas twenty-six mines went out of business during the 1894 depression. However,
the areas second industry, lumbering, kept the economy going. There was a brief
revival of mining during the early part of the twentieth century but the last
mine closed in 1978. |
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