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Delta County is a county in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan.As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,903. [2] The county seat is Escanaba. [3] The county was surveyed in 1843 and organized in 1861.
WCHT first began broadcasting under the WLST call sign in 1958, and then became WBDN around 1971. WBDN programmed adult contemporary music throughout the 1970s and then went country around 1979, keeping that format until late 1986, when the station switched formats to oldies under the WCHT calls (with the call letters standing for classic hits).
Along the way it passes through Gladstone, 9 mi (14 km) north/east and Manistique, 54 mi (87 km) east. It runs west concurrent with US 41 until Powers, and from there 21 mi (34 km) west to Iron Mountain. US 41 connects with Marquette 66 mi (106 km) to the north and with Powers 24 mi (39 km) west before turning south to Menominee.
The Escanaba Central Historic District is located at the center of the current city of Escanaba, and runs for over a mile along Ludington Street from the Nelson Ludington's House of Ludington in the 200 block on the eastern end to the former Stegath Lumber Company located at the intersection of South 19th Street. The buildings in the district ...
Escanaba Township is a civil township of Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,496 at the 2020 census, down from 3,482 at the 2010 census. [3] The City of Escanaba is south of the township but is administratively autonomous. Both are named for the Escanaba River.
The bay also shipped iron ore from the rich iron ranges in Michigan's upper peninsula, with the first ore dock built at Escanaba in 1864. Escanaba was incorporated in 1866. A bit further north, Gladstone was founded in 1887 by U.S. Senator from Minnesota, William D. Washburn, to serve as a rail-lake terminal for lumber products.
At about that time, a stockholder's corporation, supported in part by local businessmen, formed to construct a new hotel in the city. The Delta Hotel opened on January, 1914, and served as Escanaba's best hotel for many years. [2] In 1922 the hotel was sold to Clyde J. Burns, an Escanaba businessman and politician. [3]
In 1897, the Escanaba River Company built a seven-mile (11 km) railroad from Wells, Michigan, to tap a large hardwood timber stand at LaFave’s Hill. [2] In 1898, the company name was changed to the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railway (E&LS).