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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Keweenaw National Historical ParkSummer foliage softens the former industrial landscape around the Calumet & Hecla mine captain's office.
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Keweenaw National Historical Park
Support Your Park
Visit this section to learn how you can support Keweenaw National Historical Park. Information on the Isle Royale and Keweenaw Parks Association the park's volunteer program and the Leave No Trace program is currently included.
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.

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Last Updated: September 05, 2008 at 15:02 EST