Old Victoria: A Copper Mining Ghost Town in Ontonagon County Michigan (Yooper History Hunter)
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Old Victoria , a ghost town from the copper boom, shows what life was like homesteading in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Over the years, some of the site has been destroyed or has collapsed; still, many of Old Victoria's original homesteads remain standing. Thanks to the efforts of a local group, The Society for the Restoration of Old Victoria, quite a few of the buildings have been restored and refurnished in their original condition. Unlike Fayette, the U.P.'s best-known ghost town and a small shipping port on Lake Michigan, Victoria is a remote, rugged mining town, buried in the Ontonagon wilderness.
Thus, Victoria is one of the least-known yet most interesting attractions of the Upper Peninsula. The town was carved out of one of the harshest sections of the rugged U.P. landscape. Situated at the top of a Michigan mountain, part of the picturesque Ontonagon River Gorge, Victoria is within the Gogebic Mineral Range. When visiting here, you get the feel for what it was like to struggle in a remote mining town.
Join Mikel B. Classen, the Yooper History Hunter , on a romp through time with two dozen photographs that portray more than a century of Old Victoria!
Mikel B. Classen couldn't have chosen a more interesting subject for the inaugural volume than the ghost town of Victoria. -- Tom Powers, Michigan in Books
Both history and travel guide, this thoroughly researched and gracefully written book -- illustrated with both historical and contemporary photographs -- is a must-read for people planning visits to lesser-known parts of the western Upper Peninsula. -- Jon C. Stott, author Paul Bunyan in Michigan
Old Victoria: A Copper Country Ghost Town , the inaugural volume of the Yooper History Hunter Series, offers a colorful, up-close look at the life of a small mining town in one of the remotest corners of Michigan. Painstakingly researched, but an effortless read. --Victor R. Volkman, Marquette Monthly
Learn more at www.MikelBClassen.com
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