Trout Creek - Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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<h1>TROUT CREEK</h1> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="30" height=8 alt="-"></center></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="63%">  <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td align="left">  <font face="Georgia"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> Thick stands of white oak growing in the sandy soil here once made Trout Creek, settled in 1888 just inside Ontonagon County, a bustling lumber town. The village core is a few blocks north of M-28 along the onetime <B>Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic (Soo Line) tracks</B>. The two-story school attests to Trout Creek's former size. <br><br>Trout Creek's <B>mill town</B> era, and the years of <B>subsistence agriculture</B> that followed, are long past. The school has consolidated, and pupils are now bussed to Ewen. When the village's tavern burned down a few years ago, it relocated to Bond Falls Flowage south of town, where there was more potential business. (Now it too is closed, an apparent victim of overexpansion.) <br><br>However, a loose group of transplants, largely Illinois retirees, has worked to reinvigorate community life with some success. The associated Little Old Schoolhouse restaurant has succeeded in becoming a community hub. The web site, <a href="http://www.therealtroutcreek.org" target="_new">www.therealtroutcreek.org</a>, has information on Trout Creek history, churches, library, and other institutions. Trout Creek has a writers' group and discussion groups about scientific and other topics. Old-timers have not always welcomed these changes. <br><br>Trout Creek makes for a pleasant stop for M-28 motorists between Ironwood or Duluth and Marquette. The <B>White Door General Store</B> (906-852-3222) has a vintage interior, from its decades as the Trout Creek Co-op, part of the widespread Finnish-American cooperative movement and wholesalers based in Superior, Wisconsin. Its Hawaiian décor reflects the favorite vacation spot of the grocery's owners. Like the restaurant next door, the grocery is both community service and business.<br><br>South of town on the south side of M-28, a red antique steam engine with a 4' flywheel is the centerpiece of <B>Interior Township's Abbott Fox Community Park</B>. There's also a pavilion, play equipment, and grills. The 1912 <B>Reynolds-Corliss Steam Engine</B> first powered flour milling in Minneapolis, but from 1921 to 1968 it operated in here at the Weidman Lumber Company, later Abbott Fox Lumber, north of the park across M-28. <br><br>In late 2005 Interior Township became faced with a massive land use and development issue as UPPCO (Upper Peninsula Power) announced the sale of many of its U.P. holdings, including miles of undeveloped waterfront along Bond Falls Flowage, to a land development company which expects to subdivide it for use as recreational property and vacation homes. <br><br>EASTERN TIME: Paulding and Trout Creek are on Eastern Time, an hour earlier than Central Time in Watersmeet and Land O'Lakes, because they are in Ontonagon County. <br clear="all"> <hr> <center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center> <hr> <p align="right"><a href="keweenaw_peninsula.html" target="_top">Back to Keweenaw Peninsula</a></p> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="37%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td height="4" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=1 alt="-"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="center" bgcolor="#C7302D" width="37%">  <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> <b> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> <font size="-1"> TROUT CREEK<br> RESTAURANTS,<br> LODGINGS<br> & CAMPGROUNDS </font> <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> <font size="-2">These are our choices, not ads.</font><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> </b> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top bgcolor="#FFE09B" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>TROUT CREEK<br>RESTAURANTS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> See also: Bruce Crossing, Watersmeet, Sidnaw, Covington.<br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> <a name="e1072"><b>LITTLE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE</b></a><br> (906) 852-3620 <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> This cheerful, widely appreciated attraction was started by four retirees from Illinois who felt that Trout Creek needed a gathering place with good food. They proceeded to renovate a small former schoolhouse and create just such a place, where the food is made from scratch and the atmosphere is friendly. The Schoolhouse is also a bakery that produces <B>bread</B>, cakes, cookies, a popular foam candy, and<B> pies</B>, currently $2.50 a slice. The menu is based on <B>soups</B> and sandwiches, salads, lunch/dinner specials such as roast turkey or fish from $6 to $9, and hearty breakfasts like the "A plus" (eggs with onions, green peppers, and cheese in addition to a choice of meats) or "Agate Falls" steak breakfast ($6.25). Sandwiches include various burgers and a veggie burger, classics like Reubens and BLTs, and anything with turkey. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>From M-28 between Kenton and Bruce Crossing, turn north at the Trout Creek "exit." Restaurant is before the tracks, on the east side of the road. Open daily except Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern Time. From mid-June through November open daily except Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Wheelchair-accessible. Family-friendly. No alcohol.</i> <p> </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CDCCAD" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>TROUT CREEK<br>LODGINGS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#B6DBA4" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>TROUT CREEK<br>CAMPGROUNDS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> </font> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=5 align="center">  <br> <center> <font size="+1" color="#454545" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">Copyright © 1997-2007 Midwestern Guides</font> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>