<VV> Hills in Michigan...no Corvair

[Dale Dewald]

Hello Bill,

The village of Hubbell is only about 14 driving miles (closer as the crow 
flies) from our house.  It is one of a cluster of villages, along with 
Tamarack City and Lake Linden, that were built along the shore of Torch 
Lake as housing for workers for the stamping and ore concentrating mills 
and smelters built there during the "Boom Copper" days of the Keweenaw (sp) 
Peninsula.  Although actual mining stopped during/after WW II, the mills 
kept working into the 1960's reprocessing older stamp sands that had been 
dumped into the lake (filling between 1/4 to 1/3 its volume).  Today only 
the foundations remain of most of the mill structures.

After driving to Portland, OR on US-2 and returning mostly on US-12 and MT 
SR-200 I discovered that; except for length, some of the more difficult 
highway grades on the whole trip were here in the western UP of Michigan.

Dale


At 03:33 AM 8/15/05 -0400, "Bill Hubbell" wrote:

>Yes, and do you know what famous(?) town is located in the Kewaunee
>Peninsula?
>(Hint: near Houghton, on Torch Lake)