Keweenaw Bay
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N 46° 45.565 W 088° 29.996
16T E 385456 N 5179521
On the east side of US-41 in a roadside park next to Keweenaw Bay. Plenty of parking in the roadside park.
Waymark Code: WMMVM
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 08/20/2006
Views: 36
This region's history is long and rich. Father Menard, the Jesuit missionary, wintered near what is now L'Anse in 1660-1661. Near here Father Baraga set up his mission in 1843. He and the head of the neighboring Methodist mission, the Reverend J. H. Pitezel, were good friends. Furs and fish figured prominently in the bay's early history as a source of economic wealth. In the 1880s and 1890s the area's timber was cut with Baraga and Pequaming being the centers of lumbering.
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