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 of the Keweenaw Peninsula . Keweenaw Bay is 22 miles long and 12 miles wide at the mouth. The head of the bay sits within the reservation of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community . It is also the name of a small community near the bay.
6-475: Communities near Keweenaw Bay include Aura , Assinins , Baraga , Keweenaw Bay , L'Anse , Pequaming , Zeba . Indian Trails bus lines operates daily intercity service between Hancock, Michigan and Milwaukee , Wisconsin with a stop in the Keweenaw Bay at Carla's Lakeshore Motel. [REDACTED] Media related to Keweenaw Bay at Wikimedia Commons This Baraga County, Michigan location article
12-499: A small cash downpayment to stake a claim. Many jobless Finnish miners moved there to begin farming the land. The first settlers in June 1914 were Tobias Hiltunen and his family, who purchased Camp Number 3 and which had buildings in habitable condition. Other Finnish families arrived later that summer. They named the place Aura ( Finnish : "Plow"), because someone had found an old plow on the land, apparently left by loggers. A post office
18-491: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Houghton County, Michigan location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Aura, Michigan Aura is a small unincorporated community in Arvon Township of Baraga County in the U.S. state of Michigan . The area is approximately 12 miles (19 km) northeast of L'Anse and four miles (6 km) east of Pequaming . In
24-667: The 1870s, the land on the Abbaye Peninsula was still mostly the property of the Chippewa Native Americans. In 1877, the Hebard and Thurberg Lumber Company leased the peninsula from the chief, David King. They built a large steam-powered sawmill the following year and established sixteen lumber camps. The principal Chippewa village, known as Pe-qua-qua-wa-ming, is now Pequaming . The mill produced up to 25 million board feet of lumber annually and employed as many as 650 men. After
30-611: The death of King, his heirs sold the entire peninsula to Charles Hebard and his company. The land and the sawmill were later owned by Henry Ford . Towards the end of the Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914 that affected mining interests throughout the Copper Country region of Michigan, Hebard began selling off harvested lands in the middle of the Abbaye peninsula on reasonable terms, of $ 300 for 40 acres (160,000 m ) with only
36-556: Was opened December 19, 1921, and the first postmaster was Hilda Mytty. It was discontinued on February 1, 1974, and was a CPO until February 20, 1982. Situated on the Abbaye Peninsula between Keweenaw Bay and Huron Bay , this small farming settlement consisted of approximately fifteen square miles in both Arvon and L'Anse townships. Historically, the rich clay loam has been most suitable for potatoes, hay, wheat, oats, and other grains, although active farming has declined over
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