Industry

Historical marker location:

Houghton, Michigan

( Marker is on West Lakeshore Drive, 0.2 miles west of Quincy Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Historic Houghton.

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan was once a major center for copper mining. The Keweenaw Peninsula was home to the largest concentration of copper mines in the world in the mid-19th century, and copper was an important natural resource for the state's economy.