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Tonight, we enjoyed another evening event. Thank you to our History on the Hill host and weather-braving guests. The Quincy Mine was the perfect setting to explore Keweenaw change over time. #MapYourHistory
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Photos by Larry Molloy
Thank you to all who attended our event with the Keweenaw County Historical Society!
Your thoughtful questions and eager exploration made for an enjoyable evening. We look forward to returning to Eagle Harbor for the art fair in August.
Your thoughtful questions and eager exploration made for an enjoyable evening. We look forward to returning to Eagle Harbor for the art fair in August.
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This weekend, we are time traveling in Chassell. Find us at Strawberry Fest on Friday and Saturday.
In 1962, photographer Harold B. Putnam captured this moment of strawberry shortcake joy (Copper Country Historical Images). We look forward to hearing your Strawberry Fest memories and welcome you to #MapYourHistory using our app.
In 1962, photographer Harold B. Putnam captured this moment of strawberry shortcake joy (Copper Country Historical Images). We look forward to hearing your Strawberry Fest memories and welcome you to #MapYourHistory using our app.
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Happy 4th of July!
Today, we travel back in time to this downtown Calumet Independence Day celebration (Copper Country Historical Images). Using this segment of a period Sanborn Fire Insurance Plan, we can imagine the festivities in even greater detail. The arrow indicates the direction of photographer's gaze as they stood on Pine and looked toward 5th Street.
Today, we travel back in time to this downtown Calumet Independence Day celebration (Copper Country Historical Images). Using this segment of a period Sanborn Fire Insurance Plan, we can imagine the festivities in even greater detail. The arrow indicates the direction of photographer's gaze as they stood on Pine and looked toward 5th Street.
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We are now one launch event and two festivals into the Keweenaw Time Traveler summer season. Thank you everyone for your support!
Continuing our #MapYourHistory mission, we bring you a story from our Explore App. To see the post in its entirety and to contribute your own stories, start the Time Traveler here on our website. Choose the Explore App to search stories for "Cliff Mine."
Note: You can contribute a story *anywhere* in the Keweenaw, even if you do not see a Sanborn map at that location.
Continuing our #MapYourHistory mission, we bring you a story from our Explore App. To see the post in its entirety and to contribute your own stories, start the Time Traveler here on our website. Choose the Explore App to search stories for "Cliff Mine."
Note: You can contribute a story *anywhere* in the Keweenaw, even if you do not see a Sanborn map at that location.
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Despite the rain, we had a great time at Pasty Fest. People of all ages stopped by to use the Keweenaw Time Traveler. One of our team members, Michael, even took part in the pasty eating contest!
Thank you to everyone who visited our booth and we look forward to seeing you at future events.
Thank you to everyone who visited our booth and we look forward to seeing you at future events.
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Join us this Saturday (6/24) at Pasty Fest! You can find our tent on the corner of 5th and Oak in Calumet, MI. We will also be at the Portland St. Performance Spot from 3-4pm. Come to learn more about our project and to #MapYourHistory.
***New for this event: Our tent will have a scanner. Feel free to bring photos, recipes, letters, etc. from your personal history with pasties. We would be happy to scan them and help you add what you wish to the Explore app.
***New for this event: Our tent will have a scanner. Feel free to bring photos, recipes, letters, etc. from your personal history with pasties. We would be happy to scan them and help you add what you wish to the Explore app.
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The Keweenaw Time Traveler attends its first summer festival.
The Keweenaw Time Traveler team had a great weekend interacting with BridgeFest visitors. Ray Kestner Waterfront Park, the location of the festival, is the former site of the Copper Range Railroad Co. Collaborating with visitors, we found our tent location (the 'X') on Sanborn Fire Insurance Plans from various years (1949 is shown above). As we learned, the present road takes its shape from the original roundhouse.
Want to learn more about Keweenaw history? Start the Time Traveler!
Want to learn more about Keweenaw history? Start the Time Traveler!
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You can now use the Keweenaw Time Traveler! After a successful launch party last night at the Carnegie Museum in downtown Houghton, the Keweenaw Time Traveler is up and running. How do you want to Time Travel today? Check out our four apps here. The Explore App lets you browse old maps and search for people by name and address. This "Public Test Version" of the Explore App is still growing and will continue to improve. Right now you will find the most data in Hancock, but we will be adding more information over the summer for all the Copper Country towns. Keep track of what we're adding on this status page. You can also add your own stories!
Another way to Time Travel is to choose one of the Citizen Historian Apps. These ask you to record data from historic maps that computers can't read so that users like you have more information to explore in the Keweenaw Time Traveler. You can Document Building Materials, Document Building Use, or Transcribe the Map. If we all work together, we can make the Time Traveler even more fun!
Thanks to everyone who came out last night to help launch the Keweenaw Time Traveler. We hope you enjoy using it and we can't wait to see what you'll do with it. Get started here.
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Tonight's the night! We launch at the Carnegie Museum in Houghton, MI. Come join us at 6:30pm to hear how you can use the Keweenaw Time Traveler to investigate your favorite buildings. Get ready to #MapYourHistory!
For some site history: The Carnegie Museum's gets its name from the Gilded Age philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who gave Houghton (and hundreds of other communities) funds to build a public library in 1909. But before the current stone and brick building, a large wooden structure occupied the site and had lots of different uses. It was a skating rink occupied by the Michigan Mining School (Michigan Tech’s predecessor) in 1888. Then it became an Opera House complete with “stage and scenery” and grocery storage in the basement.