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The Mining Gazette was founded in Ontonagon, Michigan in July 1858 by George Emerson. In 1860, the paper was purchased by James R. Devereau and moved to Houghton, where it was published weekly as The Portage Lake Mining Gazette. The paper began daily publication on 14 September 1899. [3]
Early edition [1] covers from the Mining Journal archives. The Mining Journal was founded in 1835 in London by Henry English, [2] a London stockbroker [3] under the name of Mining Journal and Commercial Gazette. In 1860, it was renamed to The Mining Journal, Railway and Commercial Gazette. Its name was changed to The Mining Journal in 1910.
Houghton was the birthplace of professional ice hockey in the United States when the Portage Lakers were formed in 1903. Houghton is the home of the Portage Lake Pioneers Senior Hockey Team. The team's home ice is Dee Stadium, named after James R. Dee. Dee Stadium was originally called the Amphidrome, before it was severely damaged in a 1927 ...
The Bay City Journal, Bay City, Michigan; Birmingham, Eccentric, Birmingham – circulation was just in excess of 6,000. [32] It ceased print publication in December 2022. [33] [34] Bloomfield-Birmingham Eccentric Newspaper [35] Bronson Journal, Bronson ceased publication on Nov. 16, 2017 Archived 2019-11-21 at the Wayback Machine.
There are five daily newspapers published in the Upper Peninsula, The Mining Journal in Marquette, The Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton, The Daily News in Iron Mountain, the Daily Press in Escanaba, and The Evening News in Sault Ste. Marine. All but The Evening News are owned by Ogden Newspapers, with the former being owned by Gannett.
The Mining Journal was the proprietor of Marquette's first television and radio stations. First known as WBEO, AM 1320 began broadcasting in 1931, later changing its call sign to WDMJ on November 15, 1939; [3] DMJ standing for Daily Mining Journal. The newspaper would later add an FM station in 1966, known as WDMJ-FM, and would later become ...
It is the oldest radio station in Marquette County, Michigan and is the second oldest in the Upper Peninsula, only behind WCCY in Houghton. [ 3 ] First known as WBEO, AM 1320 began broadcasting on July 2, 1931, later changing it's call sign to WDMJ on November 15, 1939, [ 4 ] with DMJ standing for the Daily Mining Journal , Marquette's daily ...
The Michigan Smelter was a copper smelter located at Cole's Creek on the Keweenaw Waterway north-west of Houghton, Michigan near the old Atlantic mill. The smelter was created in 1903-4 as a joint effort between the Copper Range Company and Stanton group of mines. An Atlantic dam on the site was reused by the smelter as a water source. [1]