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Data Available as of June 1, 2022
People:
Names of people listed in City Directories for Houghton County for the places and years listed below:
Names of Calumet & Hecla employees from employee cards dating about 1870-1930
Maps:
Sanborn Fire Insurance Plans for:
Buildings:
Millions of buildings can be found by exploring the maps. When a building appears on a Sanborn Fire Insurance map, all the information provided is also available by selecting the purple Places markers for each building. Also, addresses that appear in Sanborn maps can be found using the search bar.
Places:
Places included on the U.S. Geological Service's maps and named in the 1917 Polk Business Directory (the biggest year published) can be searched.
Names of people listed in City Directories for Houghton County for the places and years listed below:
- Calumet 1900, 1917, 1928, 1942
- Dollar Bay 1917, 1925, 1942
- Hancock 1888, 1900, 1907, 1917, 1928, 1942
- Houghton 1888, 1900, 1908, 1917, 1928
- Hubbell 1917, 1928
- Lake Linden 1900, 1917, 1928
- Laurium 1900, 1917, 1942
- 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940
Names of Calumet & Hecla employees from employee cards dating about 1870-1930
- The original archival documents can also be accessed individually at the Copper Miners Employee Card Database with our partners at the Michigan Tech Archives.
Maps:
Sanborn Fire Insurance Plans for:
- 1888, 1900, 1908, 1917, 1928, 1935, 1942, 1949
- 1915 (Portage Lake only), 1947, 1975
- 1865, 1912, 1924, 1964
- 1995
Buildings:
Millions of buildings can be found by exploring the maps. When a building appears on a Sanborn Fire Insurance map, all the information provided is also available by selecting the purple Places markers for each building. Also, addresses that appear in Sanborn maps can be found using the search bar.
Places:
Places included on the U.S. Geological Service's maps and named in the 1917 Polk Business Directory (the biggest year published) can be searched.