Thank you so much!

Cops hate ATVs ishpeming neguanee is my new place I can road ride around here no issues

The plant was a couple of blocks from my grandmother's house. My grandfather worked at the Ford plant.

Remember LodAl that occupied the old Ford Plant for a while making the new style garbage trucks they were very popular for many years.

What type of woods are actually in Kingsford natural, or (cowboy) charcoal??

It’s all about the $$$ required to maintain even ONE of these classic buildings. The short version is: if there’s enough historic interest for the place to be maintained by tourism, or it can be converted to a venue for activities or shows, then it may survive. Otherwise, it’s coming down, or just sit and silently decay.

I’m a skilled tradesmen of Ohio. Late wife and four step kids loved the UP. If you’d like to preserve them old buildings for others to enjoy. I’d be willing to contract the work super cheap for exchange of a few acres or a nice old trappers cabin, or just for fair pricing willing to negotiate and barter. I’d be happy to bring the buildings back to their original grandeur

Definitely not thousands of towns like iron mountain or towns like Michigan has

If you're thinking exactly like Iron Mountain, then no, I've travelled to all of the lower 48 states and there are hundreds of towns that have more historic value than this small town in Michigan and need saving.

🤔 almost as if things cost too much in the modern day to bother worrying about an old structure… I wonder which generation was responsible for the outlandish cost of property?

Check out Fordlandia a farm Henry Ford tried farm rubber in south America 😮

Very interesting!!! But, I thought Ford eventually bought land in the Amazon rain forest in the 20s in Brazil to make his own tires from the vast rubber trees there---

oh yeah, copper country. go for the fall foliage amazing

I have to agree. For my money the best old buildings are from calumet. The town was very financially important at the beginning of the 20th century and is virtually untouched from 100 years ago. The high-school is the most industrial thing I've ever seen.

Agreed, go to the Keweenaw!

No its not

Charcoal has been made and used by man for at least 30,000 years. When you state something as fact ;look it up. It took me 3 seconds to get the answer!

It's simple. The future generations are smaller than the previous. This is population decline.

So true!!! I've been going up to the country (UP) for over 40 years!!!!

its real bad for sure nowadays

no way my mom Grew up in Mellen and washburn area i go down there a few times a year ! to put my 2 cents in as a yooper kid there is not much here the logging industry is not what it was when my grandpa was in the woods you're lucky to make ends meet doing that so most kids either want to go out west and start working become a trucker or end up welding those that stick around work at the grocery store or the gas station it's really rough up here 70% of people are on some sort of assistance due to laziness and lack of opportunity i left to Green Bay the second i turned 18 and have not looked back since i wish the UP was flourishing like it was in the 40s-70s but its not and it is a real bummer but the population is rapidly increasing in the UP my reasoning is because of the legalization of marijuana but thats not a fact the town i grew up in had about 1400 ppl in it now its around 3800 so something is happening and iron mountain in specific has gotten very large in the past 5 years so idk where you are getting this info of the pop decreasing but that is very false

I'm just waiting on global warming to make my home worth 5 times what it was. This place is the best outside of how blistering cold and snowy the winters are (minus this one).

One Finn ?? Then it is PARTY TIME!!

next time you go check out Big Bens Tattoos he is my Pastor of the Keweenaw Cavalry chapel here in Calumet/Larium awesome guy with alot of cool stories

I live in iron mountain

For sure, went to events many times in the 70’s, drove over from Iron River. One of my favorite Olympic events to watch

Had a teacher by the name of Johnson who was on the Olympic ski team .

You put a lot of effort into this video, and it is a joy to watch. It is a great introduction to the town and surrounding area. People who know the place will always comment, you missed this or you missed that. Well, one has to pick and choose. Covering what you missed would have made the video more detailed, not necessarily better. I am admiring how you keep on making these local documentaries, considering how little you get rewarded for this work at the end of the day. Your earlier video about that topic made a lasting impression. All your videos are good, eminently watchable and interesting.

Kingsford as in charcoal for barbecues ? 😅

YES@@djack915

@@djack915Yes. Kingsford helped manage Henry Ford’s forest assets. The charcoal was originally made from Ford’s wood scraps.

@@brucebeauvais1324 o I see thanks

Yes I grew up there also.

So was mine! At the south end of Iron Lake.

My grandma was born in Amasa in 1900 and lived there for almost 100 years. I lived in Iron Mountain for six years and didn't know some of this stuff in this video. Good video.

My parents were from the Iron River/Crystal Falls area as well! My grandfather Hugh Robert Charron worked for Hanna Mine as an accountant. His father, Alphonse Charron, was the town blacksmith in Crystal Falls and it was said of him that he had to have the fastest horse in Iron County. If another man's horse passed his on the road he immediately began negotiations to buy it. In one of the Crystal Falls history books, there is an account of a race on an icy lake which took place between his horse and a cocky outsider's horse. Guess whose horse won! By the way I still have a horseshoe that Grampa made for his pony in 1915. On my dad's side my grandfather Ivar Malmberg had a dairy farm outside Crystal Falls on what is now M-69 and he also worked for the post office. So we might have some relatives in common! You really ought to look into the Courthouse War between Crystal Falls and Iron River. Family legend says that the county records which were stolen from the Iron River courthouse were hidden on the Malmberg farm before being moved to the new courthouse in Crystal Falls.

I’d like to see that as well. Both my parents grew up there. I Miss Riverside Pizza, but thankfully they put one in in Green Bay. Many memories from Iron Mountain and Iron River

Yup.

I was stationed at K.I. In the late 70’s and I grew up in Iron River, just 80 miles west of there. In my 24 years of active duty my best memories were at K.I. I was with 87FIS, AGE guy.

@@brianboot8623 I also spent time (10 yrs) at K.I. Sawyer 1974-1984 (Medic at USAF Hospital....then, NCOIC NCO PME Center). Like you, I have many fond memories of the U.P.! Were you there when the 106 went in Lake Superior? Great Place....Great People! I miss it to this very day.

@@larryhudlemeyer2617 No, I was there 4/78 to 10/79, got orders to Germany. Wanted to sign up for the 5 year controlled tour but I was told to wait until I got closer to my enlistment date. I still have family in the U.P. So I get up there once a year. I currently live in Spokane Washington, I retired out of Fairchild AFB in 2001.

I live on A st ♡

Thank you so much! It's our pleasure. We're really happy to hear you and your roommate enjoy our videos.

How did you add a tip to your comment? I have never seen that before and there are so many times I felt like tipping a video but there was no way to do that

@@wannabewoodsmith4217 On my p.c. is the only way I can do it. You hit the money icon, choose an amount, and pay with a card. You can leave a comment at the same time.

There were set floor plans communities could choose from.

Oh, the drudgery.

I bet Sally glows in the dark. 🤫👍

@Tapiocah 🤔Maybe one day I will share more about my experience in nuclear.