Map Your History: Launch Day Edition

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.