• The Keweenaw Peninsula (/ˈkiːwənɔː/, KEE-wə-naw) is a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Part of the greater landmass of the Upper Peninsula, the...
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    Upper Peninsula: Keweenaw Brewing Company, Blackrocks Brewery, and the Ore Dock Brewing Company. There are 15 counties in the Upper Peninsula. State...
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    The Keweenaw Waterway is a partly natural, partly artificial waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan; it separates Copper Island...
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    Keweenaw County (/ˈkiːwənɔː/, KEE-wə-naw) is a county in the western Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the county's...
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    The Keweenaw Rocket Range is an isolated launch pad located in the U.S. state of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. It was used between 1964 and 1971 for launching...
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    forms the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, which projects into Lake Superior. Grant Township was one of the original townships of Keweenaw County, which was...
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    Located on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Houghton is the largest city in the Copper Country region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Upper Peninsula, with a population...
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    Copper Island (category Islands of Keweenaw County, Michigan)
    northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula (projecting northeastward into Lake Superior at the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States...
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    1992, the park celebrates the life and history of the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a federal-local cooperative...
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    Copper Country (category Upper Peninsula of Michigan)
    The Copper Country is an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States, including Keweenaw County, Michigan, Houghton, Baraga and Ontonagon...
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    situated upon the Keweenaw Waterway, a channel of Lake Superior that cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula. Hancock is located across the Keweenaw Waterway from...
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    Copper Harbor, Michigan (category Unincorporated communities in Keweenaw County, Michigan)
    2020 census. The community is located at the northern tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula and is the northernmost permanently populated community in the state...
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    peoples, proven by isotopic analysis. The first commercial mines in the Keweenaw Peninsula (which is nicknamed the "Copper Country" and "Copper Island") opened...
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    softer rock, it formed a basin. This may create peninsulas, and occurred for example in the Keweenaw Peninsula. In the case of formation from meltwater, melting...
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    Reagan. Born and raised in Laurium, Michigan, on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula, Gipp entered Notre Dame intending to play baseball for...
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    rift can be seen on the surface of Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, northwest Wisconsin, and on the North Shore...
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    crosses Portage Lake, a portion of the waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula with a canal linking the final several miles to Lake Superior to the...
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  • Woodtick Peninsula The Upper Peninsula of Michigan contains: Abbaye Peninsula Garden Peninsula Keweenaw Peninsula Rabbit's Back Stonington Peninsula Barnegat...
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    Other notable peninsulas of Michigan include the Keweenaw Peninsula, which projects northeasterly into Lake Superior from the Upper Peninsula and largely...
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    south of Lake Superior and over the Keweenaw Peninsula, extending into the Lake from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Captain Paquette of Wilfred Sykes had...
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    Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 72 at the 2020 census. The township consists of a mainland portion of the Keweenaw Peninsula...
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    township of Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 217 at the 2020 census. The township is located on the Keweenaw Peninsula and also...
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    Keweenaw Bay is an arm of Lake Superior in North America. It is located adjacent to the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, to the southeast...
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  • Torch Bay (category Upper Peninsula, Michigan, geography stubs)
    Portage Lake in Houghton County on the Keweenaw Peninsula, which juts into Lake Superior from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is lined by the unincorporated...
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  • (Lake Superior), a small island off the eastern tip of the Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula Manitou Island (Wisconsin), one of the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior...
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  • Brockway Mountain Drive (category National Register of Historic Places in Keweenaw County, Michigan)
    Copper Harbor to the east in the Keweenaw Peninsula. The drive runs along the ridge of Brockway Mountain on the Keweenaw Fault and climbs to 1,320 feet...
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  • Leelanau Peninsula Lake Leelanau from Fountain Point Resort Lake Michigan from Pyramid Point Door Peninsula Garden Peninsula Keweenaw Peninsula The Thumb...
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  • Hill" is the surveyor Samuel W. Hill (1819–1889), associated with the Keweenaw Peninsula area. Hill allegedly used such foul language that his name became...
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    cul-de-sac near Fort Wilkins Historic State Park at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula. US 41 is closely paralleled by Interstate 75 (I-75) from Naples,...
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    unlike meteoric iron. The same deposits of native copper on the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale were later mined commercially. From 1845 until 1887...
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