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Hunts' Guide to Michigan's UPPER PENINSULA

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Champion No. 4 mine. This haunting setting gives the best view of what a Keweenaaw copper mining site looked like a century ago. ... more

Region: Keweenaw Peninsula

PAINESDALE

Don Hunt

Modest miners' homes close to Champion No. 4 remain well maintained. Elsewhere across the peninsula, many if not most have been demolished or are abandoned.

As you pass through Painsedale along highway M-26, you'd hardly imagine that this was once a major copper mining town. It's at the southern end of a slender 26-mile-long strip that contained most of the huge quantity of Keweenaw copper shipped nationwide. The remaining mine hoist is tucked well out of sight in a hollow on the southern edge of town (see Champion No. 4 mine.)

The tidy, well-preserved copper mining town was created by Paine-Webber's founder. Today its major export is, of all things, water. A spring down in Champion 4's supplies water as far away as the city of Hancock, whose citizens boast it tastes better than Houghton's, which opted to use wells.

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