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Eagle Harbor in old photos and postcards

Postcards, papers and photographs of Eagle Harbor from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.

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From Eagle Harbor’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Eagle Harbor’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Landmarks on the Register11 places on the National Register.
★ What stands out · On the National Register

11 historic places in Eagle Harbor

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
11
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
9
each building in a district counts
first listed
1972
Holy Redeemer Church
in Michigan
#29
by listings
Holy Redeemer ChurchEagle Harbor SchoolhouseRock of Ages Light Station, built 1908Eagle Harbor Light Station, built 1851Johns Hotel, built 1892M 26-Cedar Creek CulvertM26-Silver River CulvertEagle Harbor Coast Guard Station BoathouseBrockway Mountain DriveIshpeming Fire TowerNew Feldtmann Fire Tower
BuildingsDistrictsStructures

Architectural styles listings

Multiplate Steel Culvert2
Vernacular1
Colonial1
Holy Redeemer ChurchBuilding
Eagle Harbor SchoolhouseBuilding
Rock of Ages Light StationBuilt 1908
Eagle Harbor Light StationBuilt 1851
Johns HotelVernacular · Built 1892
M 26-Cedar Creek CulvertMultiplate Steel Culvert
M26-Silver River CulvertMultiplate Steel Culvert
Eagle Harbor Coast Guard Station BoathouseColonial
All 11 listings
Brockway Mountain DriveDistrict · listed 2017Ishpeming Fire TowerStructure · listed 2021New Feldtmann Fire TowerStructure · listed 2021

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story

How Eagle Harbor came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Eagle Harbor.

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Eagle Harbor is known in the Ojibwe language as Ginoozhegoong, meaning "place of the northern pike".

The earliest known non-indigenous settlement at Eagle Harbor was a log warehouse built in 1844. In 1845, the Eagle Harbor Mining Company was established there to mine copper. In 1853, the Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse was established. A post office operated at Eagle Harbor from 1857 through 1959.

The Eagle Harbor Light was first constructed in 1851. A rocky ledge originally obstructed entrance to the harbor for larger ships, but in the late 1870s a 14 foot (4.3 m)-deep channel was dredged at the entrance to the harbor.

ChaptersRecent history

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Eagle Harbor, 1793 to 1908

Woven from the archive, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 18th century
  2. 1793In the archiveMap Of Location Of Light
  3. 19th century
  4. 1851BuiltEagle Harbor Light Station is built
  5. 1870In the archiveEagle Harbor, Amygdaloid Copper shaft house
  6. 1892BuiltJohns Hotel is built
  7. 20th century
  8. 1902In the archiveOld school house at Eagle Harbor, Mich., in which Justus Rathbone taught
  9. 1908BuiltRock of Ages Light Station is built
By decade

Eagle Harbor, decade by decade

3 decades in the archive, from the 1790s to the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1790s1 item
Map Of Location Of Light1793Map Of Location Of LightMap
1870s–1900s4 items
Eagle Harbor, Amygdaloid Copper shaft housec. 1870Eagle Harbor, Amygdaloid Copper shaft house General view of works at Amygdaloid Copper Mountain, Eagle Harborc. 1870General view of works at Amygdaloid Copper Mountain, … Old school house at Eagle Harbor, Mich., in which Justus Rathbone taught1902Old school house at Eagle Harbor, Mich., in which Jus… Old school house at Eagle Harbor, Mich., in which Justus Rathbone taught1902Old school house at Eagle Harbor, Mich., in which Jus…
1910s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Then & now

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Eagle Harbor, Amygdaloid Copper shaft house
Retake this viewEagle Harbor, Amygdaloid Copper shaft house, c. 1870

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Finish Eagle Harbor’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

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Stories next door

History across the town line

Houghton11 historic placesGrant6 historic placesShermanIts storyCopper HarborIts storyEagle RiverIts story

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From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (11) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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