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KINROSS
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Kinross Heritage Park. Here you'll find a hiking trail through the woods and historical displays-a blacksmith shop, shoe repair shop, barber shop, plus an 1882 log cabin and 1902 one-room schoolhouse ...
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Region: Les Cheneaux Islands, Drummond Island & the St. Mary's River
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This small town has an airport just to its south with a runway over 2.5 miles long. It and the runway at the former K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base south of Marquette are the longest runways in Michigan. A legacy of the cold war, they were built to accommodate B-52s and giant re-fueling tankers. The Kincheloe field here has been renamed the Chippewa County International Airport. Its enormous size is weirdly out of proportion to the air traffic it now generates.
Just east of this cavernous, underused airport is another massive site: Michigan's biggest prison, Kinross, whose 113 acres hold over 1,200 prisoners. (Jackson Prison, long the world's largest walled prison, has been subdivided into smaller, more manageable units.)Another prison in the vicinity, Hiawatha, on Marshall Road, incarcerates another 930 prisoners.
The town was founded as a station on the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (the Soo Line) in 1891. It was named after a town in Scotland by the Scottish settlers who had moved south from Canada. By the 1930s Kinross straddled the old highway (superseded by I-75 a couple miles east). Nearby farms grew hay, grain, and vegetables to market in Sault Ste. Marie.
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