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Background to the Michigan Copper Country Strike: The industry, Geography, and the Workers
PART ONE The traveler to the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, the far most northern region in the state, may find it difficult to believe the area was a highly populated industrial center less then a century ago. Yet, in 1910, Houghton County, comprising the southern half of the Keweenaw Peninsula, was the fourth most populated…
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The Beginning of the Michigan Copper Country Strike – 23 July 1913
David Christopher Siwik is the creator and editor of Præteritum Michigan. He can be reached at david.siwik@gmail.com. On 23 July 1913 the great strike that would last into the Spring of 1914 began in Michigan’s Copper Country – the mines along the copper range of the Keweenaw Peninsula. While there were many collaborative and informative…
