1. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula –
Superior Scenery and Some
Remarkable People
Why I say ya to da U.P., eh?

2. The region’s economy is bolstered by mining the abundant iron ores.

3. The iron ranges have the most topographic relief and the best scenery.

4. Huron Mountain Club
Saux Head Lake
Granot Loma
Little Presque Isle
Middle Island
Presque Isle
WaNiPa

5. A Lake Superior kayak adventure was how I
began my retirement - from Big Bay to Presque
Isle.
We started by paddling from Lake
Independence to Lake Superior via Iron
River.

6. Scenes along the way…
Arrow shows nonconformity between Archean
below and younger Precambrian Jacobsville
Sandstone.

7. Granot Loma is a National Historic Landmark begun by Louis and Marie
Kauffman in 1919.

8. The Little Presque Isle tract is often called the crown jewel of Lake
Superior, with its beautiful sand beaches, rugged shoreline cliffs, heavily
timbered forests, and unmatched public views.
We paddled through the gap
between the mainland and Little
Presque Isle. It is shallow enough
that one can wade to the island
from the shore.

10. Finished at Presque Isle Park

12. The land around Marquet t e was known t o French missionaries
of t he early 1 7 t h cent ury and t he t rappers of t he early 1 9 t h
cent ury. Development of t he area did not begin, however, unt il
1 8 4 4 , when William Burt and Jacob Hought on ( t he brot her
of geologist Douglass Hought on) discovered iron deposit s near
Teal Lake west of Marquet t e. In 1 8 4 5 , Jackson Mining
Company, t he f irst organized mining company in t he region,
was f ormed.[ 7 ]
Front St reet around 1 9 0 9 . The Marquet t e Count y Savings
Bank Building clock t ower in t he background st ill st ands t oday.
The village of Marquet t e began on Sept ember 1 4 , 1 8 4 9 , wit h
t he f ormat ion of a second iron concern, t he Marquet t e Iron
Company. Three men part icipat ed in organizing t he f irm: Robert
J. Graveraet , who had prospect ed t he region f or ore; Edward
Clark, agent f or Wat erman A. Fisher of Worcest er,
Massachuset t s, who f inanced t he company, and Amos Rogers
Harlow. The village was at f irst called New Worcest er, wit h
Harlow as t he f irst post mast er. On August 2 1 , 1 8 5 0 , t he name
was changed t o honor Jacques Marquet t e, t he French Jesuit
missionary who had explored t he region. A second post of f ice,
named Carp River, was opened on Oct ober 1 3 , 1 8 5 1 by Pet er
Whit e, who had come t here wit h Graveraet at age 1 8 . Harlow
closed his post of f ice in August 1 8 5 2 . The Marquet t e Iron

13. Company f ailed, while it s successor, t he Cleveland Iron Mining
Company, f lourished and had t he village plat t ed in 1 8 5 4 . The
plat was recorded by Pet er Whit e. Whit e' s of f ice was renamed
as Marquet t e in April 1 8 5 6 , and t he village was incorporat ed in
1 8 5 9 . It was incorporat ed as a cit y in 1 8 7 1 .[ 8 ]
The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Ore dock, in Upper
Harbor, is st ill in use.
During t he 1 8 5 0 s, Marquet t e was linked by rail t o numerous
mines and became t he leading shipping cent er of t he Upper
Peninsula. The f irst ore pocket dock, designed by an early
t own leader, John Burt , was built by t he Cleveland Iron Mining
Company in 1 8 5 9 .[ 9 ] By 1 8 6 2 , t he cit y had a populat ion of
over 1 ,6 0 0 and a soaring economy.[ 7 ]
In t he lat e 1 9 t h cent ury, during t he height of iron mining,
Marquet t e became nat ionally known as a summer haven.
Visit ors brought in by Great Lakes passenger st eamships f illed
t he cit y' s hot els and resort s.[ 9 ]
Sout h of t he cit y, K.I. Sawyer AFB, was an import ant Air
Force inst allat ion during t he Cold War, host t o B-
5 2 H bombers and KC-1 3 5 t ankers of t he St rat egic Air
Command, as well as a f ight er int ercept or squadron. The base
closed in Sept ember 1 9 9 5 , and is now t he count y' s Sawyer
Int ernat ional Airport .
Marquet t e cont inues t o be a shipping port f or hemat it e ores
and, t oday, enriched iron ore pellet s, f rom nearby mines and
pellet izing plant s. About 7 .9 million gross t ons of pellet ized

14. The Roman Catholic Bishop Baraga is buried in St. Peter’s Cathedral
which is the center for the diocese of Marquette.

15. Longyear mansion, 1908
Now in Brookline, MA

17. The Longyear Mansion, with a distinct history dating back to the 1890s, was originally built in
Marquette, Michigan for John and Mary Longyear. John Longyear, who made his fortune in
mining, logging and heavy industry, used native red and brown stone as the primary material
for the exterior of the building. It was built on a hill that overlooked Lake Superior. The house
was landscaped by the famous architect Frederick Law Olmsted and was completed in 1892.
Around the turn-of-the-century, tragedy struck the Longyears when one of their sons drowned
in Lake Superior. Mary Longyear was very fond of the house but couldn't bear to stay in it
because every time she looked out the windows she could see Lake Superior where her son
had drowned. The Longyears moved to Boston to get away from the tragic memories and to
live closer to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, but
were so fond of the house, they had it dismantled, numbered each stone and moved the entire
house 1,300 miles by train in 172 freight and flat cars to Boston. While re-constructing the
house atop Fisher Hill in Brookline, they added another 20 rooms to the original house.
In time their home became an educational center for the Church, and upon Mary Longyear's
death in 1931, the mansion and grounds became the Longyear Foundation, housing a museum
and archive of early Christian Science documents and artifacts.

18. Howard Longyear’s tragic drowning led to the Stone House at Ives Lake
Through its long association with the non-profit Huron Mountain Foundation, the Huron
Mountain Club has been the site of a wide range of research in field biology and
geology. The research facility at Ives Lake was started in the 1960s, after Ives lake passed
from Longyear family hands into Club ownership.

19. The Longyears were known for their philanthropy and were generous patrons of
art, music, and education. They contributed to many institutions organized for benevolent
purposes, including the extension of the teaching of the blind by the Braille system and the
publication of the Bible in Braille.
Mrs. Longyear generously provided funds to purchase a portion of the land adjoining The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, known as The Mother Church. The land is now part of the
Christian Science Church plaza on Huntington Avenue in Boston.
At a time when development threatened landmarks in the name of progress, Mrs. Longyear
collected paintings, furniture, documents, photographs, and artifacts on the life and work of
Mary Baker Eddy. The former Longyear residence and its grounds are now the site of the
condominiums known as Longyear at Fisher Hill.

20. Who Peter White was and where he came from:
Rome, New York-born in 1839, by 1852 he was postmaster of Carp
River (now Marquette), a position he held for 12 years. With no
money to invest in mining lands, White opened a store for miners
and became involved in banking and real estate. By the Civil
War, Peter White was the town's leading citizen. In addition to
dealing in lands, timber, iron ore, and insurance; he was active in civic
and public affairs. Peter White provided funds for Marquette's public
library and hospital and helped establish Presque Isle as a city park.
During White's memorial service in 1908, it was said of him, "If you
want to see his monument, look around you."

21. George Shiras III (or as Shiras signed it, “3d”) first saw the woods and waters of
northern Michigan in the summer of 1870, when he was 11 years old. Nothing
in his later experience would ever dim the impression they made on him—not
the trappings of wealth and position; not the influence of the finest schools;
not the example of his father, a U.S. Supreme Court justice; not a promising
legal career of his own. Not even a term spent in the U.S. Congress, where he
introduced the legislation that would become the Migratory Bird Law—
securing for Shiras an important place in the annals of conservation—could
lure him away for long. – National Geographic Magazine

22. On November 13, 1870, Louis Graveraet Kaufman was born in Marquette—one of
twelve children. He attended school in Marquette and graduated at seventeen years of
age. Kaufman then entered the banking world and became enormously successful. He
was considered the father of branch banking and was instrumental along with others in
helping reorganize General Motors. Kaufman and a small group of investors funded the
building of the Empire State Building in New York City.
In 1916 Kaufman reimbursed the Marquette Board of Education $26,000, which the
board had paid him for land on which to build a new high school. The board named the
future high school "Graveraet" in honor of Kaufman's mother, Juliet Graveraet
Kaufman, and the auditorium was named the L.G. Kaufman Auditorium.
However, World War I intervened and construction was not begun on the school until
1925. The cornerstone was put in place in 1926. It was thought that the class of 1927
would be the first graduating class. But the building was not completed until 1928 and
that class was the first graduating class from Graveraet. Kaufman invited the classes of
1927, '28 and '29 to a gala graduation party at the Kaufman Granot Loma Lodge near
Birch on the Big Bay Road just north of Marquette.
In 1927 Kaufman established an endowment fund "to bring to the children and people
of Marquette some of the finer things in the world of education, travel and art…"
Kaufman was the first person in the United States to endow a high school and
Graveraet High School was the first high school in the country to be endowed.

25. Louis’ older brother Sam Kaufman built this near the outlet of Saux Head Lake.

26. John D. Voelker (1903-1991), better known by his pen name Robert Traver, was an
attorney, judge, and writer. He is best known as the author of the novel, Anatomy of a
Murder published in 1958. The best-selling novel was turned into an Academy Award
nominated film -- directed by Otto Preminger and starring Jimmy Stewart -- that was
released July 1, 1959. Duke Ellington wrote the music for the movie. It is critically
acclaimed as one of the best trial movies of all time.
Anatomy of a Murder is based on a real homicide and subsequent trial that occurred
in Big Bay, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the early morning of July 31, 1952.
Coleman A. Peterson, a Lieutenant in the Army, was charged with murdering Maurice
Chenoweth. The alleged motive was revenge for the rape of Peterson's wife by
Chenoweth. Voelker successfully defended Peterson who was found not guilty by
reason of insanity.

27. Testament of a Fisherman - I fish because I love to; because I love the environs
where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful and I hate the environs
where crowds of people are found, which are invariably ugly; because of all the
television commercials, cocktail parties, and assorted social posturing I thus
escape; because, in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing
things they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of
small rebellion; because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed
or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility and endless
patience; because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last
time, and I for one don't want to waste the trip; because only in the woods can I
find solitude without loneliness; because bourbon out of an old tin cup always
tastes better out there; because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid;
and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but
because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally
unimportant - and not nearly so much fun.

28. Sam Cohodas was born on September 19, 1895 in Kobylnik, Poland. His father Aaron
immigrated to the United Stated and moved to Marinette, Wisconsin. Wife Eva and six
children followed in 1903 when Sam was 7 years old. Sam quit school in the sixth
grade, and by the age of 13 began peddling fruits and served in World War I.
The family produce business was established by Aaron in Houghton, Michigan. The
Cohodas Brothers Fruit Company was formed when Sam was nineteen and eventually
became the third largest produce company in the United States. Mr. Cohodas served as
president and vice president of Western Fruit Jobbers in 1933-1934, and as director of the
International Apple Association.
Cohodas’ second major career in banking began in 1934 when he opened the Miners
First National Bank of Ishpeming, Michigan. He eventually acquired the First National Bank
of Marquette, as well as banks and branches in Escanaba, Hermansville, Iron
Mountain, Ironwood, Trenary, and K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, which together formed
Michigan Financial Corporation (MFC) of which he remained chairman of the board until
age 90.
Cohodas, was also known for his philanthropic and community activities. Locally, he
was involved in such organizations as the Red Cross, Boy Scouts of America, and the
United Way. He was instrumental in establishing Francis A. Bell Memorial Hospital in
Ishpeming. In recognition of his work, he was named First Citizen of Ishpeming in 1960.
Cohodas was supportive of Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he received an honorary
doctorate of Agricultural in recognition for his support. The University also named the Sam
Cohodas Chair in Agricultural Economics at the Faculty of Agriculture in his honor. Cohodas
was involved in many charity activities, including Boys Town in Jerusalem and Bell

29. JOHN EDWARD LAUTNER, JR. FAIA
(1911-1994)
John Lautner was born in Marquette MI of
academic parents at a local college now called
Northern Michigan University. He first attended
the University of Michigan but left soon after
starting. In 1933, he graduated from Northern
Michigan University in English and began a six-
year job with Frank Lloyd Wright -- in the first
class of Taliesin Fellows at Spring Green WI. His
fiancée Mary (MaryBud) Faustina Roberts
Lautner (1913-1995) was also an early Taliesin
Fellow. They married in 1934.
For Wright, Lautner supervised Fallingwater in
Pennsylvania and the Johnson Wax Building in
Wisconsin. He also oversaw a Wright design for
his mother-in-law Abby Beecher Roberts, the
Deertrack house in Marquette MI. The
Lautners moved to California in 1937 for John
to oversee the construction of Wright's Sturges
and Oboler houses.

31. Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912 –1999), a Swede from
Ishpeming, was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of
the transuranium elements," contributed to the discovery and
isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide
concept, which led to the current arrangement of
the actinoid series in the periodic table of the elements. He
spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist
at the University of California, Berkeley where he became the
second Chancellor in its history and served as a University
Professor.
He advised ten presidents from Truman to Clinton on nuclear
policy and was the chairman of the United States Atomic
Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 where he pushed for
commercial nuclear energy and peaceful applications of nuclear
science. Throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms
control. He was a key contributor to the report "A Nation at
Risk" as a member of President Reagan's National Commission
on Excellence in Education and was the principal author of the
Seaborg Report on academic science issued in the closing days
of the Eisenhower administration.
After sharing the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Edwin
McMillan, he received approximately 50 honorary doctorates
and numerous other awards and honors.

32. Royden W. "Chuch" Magee
Road Tech for The Rolling
Stones and Ron Wood
Married for eighteen years to his wife Clare, an artist and seamstress, Chuch
chose for his home a simple lifestyle, close to the earth in Michigan's Upper
Peninsula. He loved fishing, snowmobiling, four-wheeling, making maple
syrup, and spending time in the forest with his dogs. He was an active member
of Messiah Lutheran Church, serving in a variety of supportive leadership
roles, most often with youth ministry programs. Chuch Magee also served as
one of the first volunteers and founders of the Cedar Tree Institute, a nonprofit
organization.

33. Arch and Ridge Streets Historic District