
The Michigamme River snakes through the Upper Peninsula landscape, anchoring a region defined by late 19th-century resource extraction and rail development. This survey, conducted primarily by C. R. Van Hise and Robert Muldrow in the 1890s, documents the critical intersection of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul R. R. and the C. & N. W. R. R. (Mansfield Branch) at the settlement of Channing. The map captures the industrial importance of Sagola and Mansfield during a period when timber and mineral interests dictated the expansion of these rail corridors.
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1895 · Ned Lake
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1899 · Sagola
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1899 · Witbeck
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1899 · Crystal Falls
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1939 · Iron Mountain
USGS Topo · 1:48,000
1941 · Florence
USGS Topo · 1:48,000
1941 · Iron Mountain
USGS Topo · 1:48,000
1944 · Crystal Falls
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1945 · Kelso Junction
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1946 · Crystal Falls
USGS Topo · 1:31,680