{"product_id":"michigan-ghost-towns-of-the-upper-peninsula-michigan-ghost-towns-iii-9780934884020","title":"Michigan Ghost Towns: Of the Upper Peninsula (Michigan Ghost Towns III)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichigan: the way it was. Michigan Ghost Towns compiles settlements and communities that have faded into Michigans history and legend: \"\"Baraga Countys $2 000 000 Ghost Railroad\"\" (Reprinted from the September 23  1964 Issue of the LAnse Sentinel by permission) A few rusty nails  some old telegraph poles and a bed grown over with brush and trees in the Huron Mountain district is all that remains today of a $2 000 000 railroad which never ran a train of cars and failed to bring in a cent of revenue. For several years men labored in the wilderness to lay 35 miles of tracks through rocky gorges and swamps from the mining town of Champion (now a ghost town) to Huron Bay. At Huron Bay an immense ore dock  buildings and homes were erected in preparation for a rush of business which the promoters of the Huron Bay and Iron Range Railway thought would make them wealthy. Pequaming: One of the largest ghost towns in the Upper Peninsula with buildings still standing is Pequaming. Located about 8 miles north of LAnse  the huge smokestacks and water towers are visible from the LAnse waterfront where the remains of the once prosperous industrial town lies at the tip of a tree-covered peninsula jutting out into the Keweenaw Bay. Emerson: Named after Chris Emerson  Saginaw millionaire lumberman and considered by some an eccentric. Thousands of tourists travel highway M-123 between Eckerman and Paradise each summer and visit the Tahquamenon Falls area  unaware that they pass near the site of this one-time lumbering and fishing village at the mouth of the Tahquamenon River where it empties into Lake Superior. What was once a road to the site is now a marsh- and weed-grown trail almost impassable by automobile. A spring flowing from a weed-covered mound is about all that remains where the town once was.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650327666741,"sku":"ByrdShop_0934884021","price":99.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780934884020_9e2d7afc-6e2e-47c8-b590-1ec21fa17b5d.jpg?v=1781794395","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/michigan-ghost-towns-of-the-upper-peninsula-michigan-ghost-towns-iii-9780934884020","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}