This Upper Michigan city has an engineering marvel found nowhere else

What a nice town! And, such history. I enjoyed this video.😊❤

My dad, born in 1923, grew up in Iron Mountain. He would tell us about going to the movies every Saturday. Dragged us to Iron Mountain every other summer in the ‘70s/‘80s. Miss those cross country trips (coming from California) and my dad’s stories. Thanks!

. I went to high school at both Iron Mountain (Mountaineers)f and Kingsford (Flivvers). I still have family that lives there. You did a great job of explaining Iron Mountain. I saw the Cornish Pump tons of times before the museum was built. You should go a video on Kingsford and cover the history of the Kings Ford plant, Kingsford charcoal and the Flivver. That'll keep you busy for a while.

Great story. Thank you for featuring my town, Iron Mountain.

My hometown, 50+ years....thank you 😊

Missed the old Henry Ford Model T and Woody assembly site, not to mention the ski jump (one of the largest in the world).. Come back next time!

America has thousands of these "Iron Mountain" type towns, I wish I knew how to save the best of these 100+ y/o buildings, so future generations could enjoy the past architecture, the way I have in my 74 y/o life.

My parents grew up in Iron Mountain. My father was a college professor so we spent much of the summer there with the grandparents. I remember taking the Chicago and Northwestern train from Chicago to that train station. Every summer we'd hang out in Lake Antoine and climbing the ski slide on Iron Mountain.

I grew up using a Carnegie library in Sparta WI. It's still in use. You should go check it out. Carnegie in the steel business needs iron ore, thus he visited iron mountain. Same for Henry Ford, as he owned the businesses for all materials needed for his auto production, except for tires. Ford bought all their tires until recently from Firestone. Harvy Firestone was a good friend of Henry Ford.

The signal is a train order semaphore - it was used alternately to alert the engineer if the line was clear, or alternately, to stop for train orders. Prior to electric signals, they used an item called a track warrant, which gave permission to that train to occupy a stretch of track for a time period. These would be telegraphed to stations at each end of the warrant. To put it in computer network terminology, it was the token for a token ring network.

This video is one of our favorites that you have done. Love the detail on the stone buildings. Carnegie paid to build 2,509 libraries in the USA, including one in my home town of Oregon City, Oregon -❤ built in 1913. Thanks for taking us to interesting place that we would never have had a chance to see otherwise. As Gomer would have said "Best to you and yours. Lynn & Steve

So nice to see this. I lived in Iron Mountain 60 years ago.

Fantabulous!! A very interesting tour of architecture, artifacts and history of Iron Mountain, Michigan. Thank you Sally & Marty for another wonderful and informative video! ❤👍

What a beautiful and wonder person you are Sally.

I live in Chicagoland and my grandkids live in Michigan (lower). Four years ago we did a circle tour of Lake Michigan. As an aside our family has had a place in northern Wisconsin for about 65 years so I'm a little familiar with the UP. Our house is directly south of Bessemer Mi. for reference. The rate these small towns are dead or dying is astounding. The tour we drove in the UP the last time was very eye opening. I've never seen so many gas stations, motels, stores, etc boarded up and left to nature. The way I understand is that the kids who manage to get an education just leave the areas leaving nobody to work the family businesses. It's such a shame because the UP and Northern Wisconsin are possibly the most beautiful places in our country ( yes I've been to the west coast, the Colorado mountains, and lived in California). It's just so peaceful and stress relieving. I don't have a ready answer to the issues up there but my advice is if you want to see the best night sky you've ever seen visit the UP soon while you can still get a room at an open place on a lake.

My wife and I lived in Illinois for 4 years. On numerous occasions, we took weekend trips far north into Michigan up to Calumet. We would go there for the historical side of it. Every time, we would pass through Iron Mountain and even stop for gas/food. We never actually stopped to visit there. This was a nice video to see what we were missing.

I had an aunt and uncle that lived in Iron Mountain and we used to visit in the late 60's and early 70's. My uncle was an engineer and lived there to help build a power plant. Loved seeing this area again, brought back memories. Thanks!

If you like IM, give the Keweenaw Peninsula a view, 4 UP counties. Much to be in awe of! 17 lighthouses, 9,000' deep copper mines, world's largest steam mine hoist, underground mine tours (3 locations). 2 National Parks. Over 150 miles of Lake Superior shoreline.

An interesting tidbit to add from a local is that the very small town of Quinnesec, roughly 3 miles east, and I use the word town loosely, was the very first town established on the Menominee Iron Range and thusly predates the City of Iron mountain. Also, the town of Kingsford, of which there is no separation from Iron Mountain, was named for Henry Ford's brother in law whom invented charcoal and where Kingsford charcoal was produced until 1961.

For so many reasons Andrew Carnegie was a pivotal figure in America's history. So so much came from his innovation ~ of course not just him but he did spread his wealth around while his workers there in Pittsburgh. ~ Another story. We did get the 8 hour day from his industrial meanderings. Yep. You guys are hip deep in history there. Thanks so much for sharing all of these travels and your creative narration. So sad to see that library just boarded up.