In conjunction with the UP Sled Dog Association, the MRHC is offering the UP200 Mush Bus from Marquette to Grand Marais and back on Saturday, February 15, 2025. Tour guide and MRHC volunteer, Leijhi Koval, will share stories along route as you cruise in comfort. Then experience the UP200 mushers up close as they rest at the half-way point of the race and take in all the UP200 festivities in Grand Marais. Tickets available at https://up200.org/mush-bus.
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1) William Austin Burt
2) Amos Rogers Harlow
3) Father Jacques Marquette
4) Peter Quintard White
5) Carp River Furnace, circa 1890-1895
6) Jacobs Quarry
7) Marquette Branch Prison
8) Prison Gift Shop
9) Charles Thompson Harvey
10) Charles Harvey's Bayou House
11) Students in Skandia Township picked up by Arnold Johnson in his station wagon school bus, early 1940s.
12) Eben Unity Co-Op Co.
13) Chatham, Main Street looking north
14) M-28 in Shingleton
15) Great Seney Fire, 1976
16) Great Seney Fire, 1976
17) Firefighters during the Great Seney Fire, 1976
18) Road to Grand Marais
19) Grand Marais Harbor
20) Elm Street in Munising, circa 1897-1900
21) Elm Street in Munising, circa 1950s
22) North Lighthouse on Grand Island
23) Anishinaabe wigwam near Bay Furnace, across from Grand Island
24) Anishinaabe missionary Nah-ben-ay-ash, also known as Rev. Thomas Cornelius Thomas and his family, son John Elihu, daughter Belle, and wife Mary Emma.
25) Opening of the Christmas post office
26) Detroit, Marquette & Mackinac Railroad train depot in Au Train, 1886
27) Archaeological dig by Michigan Technological University at Camp Au Train, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that was converted to a Prisoner of War camp during World War II. Students Laura Grotjan and James Schwaderer drew the profile of their excavation unit (photo by Dr. LouAnn Wurst)
28) Cutting ice on Rock River, circa late 1940s. Left to right: E.M. Kepler, unknown, Bill Braamse.
29) Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad train station at Deerton, circa 1910
30) Charlie Kawbawgam, Anishinaabe chief
31) Charlie and Charlotte Kawbawgam, with their adopted family members, Frank and Elizabeth Perreau.
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