10 Forgotten Copper Boomtowns in Michigan (Some Are Now Ghost Towns)

🧭📖 Planning a Michigan trip? The Michigan Guide Box has 4 guides: road trips by season, where Michigan eats, lighthouses and landmarks, and where to stay 👉 https://michigan-guide-box.netlify.app/?src=yt-copper In 1864, Edwin Hulbert found one of the richest copper lodes on earth under the town that became Calumet. He lost his share to Boston investors and died in Rome in 1910. By 1909, the company that grew from his find, Calumet and Hecla, had paid its shareholders more than 110 million dollars. For decades, Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula was one of the copper capitals of the world. The mining companies built towns, mansions, theaters and churches, and brought in thousands of miners from Cornwall, Finland, Italy, Croatia and French Canada. Then the price of copper fell, and the mines closed one by one. In this video, we visit 10 Michigan towns the copper barons built or made rich, ranked from the largest town to the smallest, and what is still standing today. The last one has a population of zero. In this video: The man who found Calumet #10 Hancock #9 Laurium #8 Ontonagon #7 Lake Linden and Hubbell #6 South Range #5 Calumet #4 Mohawk, Ahmeek and Gay #3 Painesdale #2 Eagle River #1 Central What the barons left behind Many of the museums, mine tours and historic sites in this video are seasonal, so check before you go. Watch next: 10 Michigan Towns Lumber Barons Built (And What's Left Today) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHBfpUE-fQo Which copper town's story surprised you most? Did your family come to work in the Keweenaw mines? Tell us in the comments. Subscribe to Michigan Hometowns for more stories from Michigan's small towns. #Michigan #MichiganHistory #CopperCountry Music: "Killers" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/