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Michigan’s Copper Rush & Portage Lake Bridge Token

2014-10-25
By: Aaron Packard
On: October 25, 2014
In: Spotlight
With: 2 Comments

It was the 1843 Copper Rush on Michigan’s Keenesaw Peninsula that the towns of Hancock and Houghton owe their existence. Long known about by Native Americans for millennia, the area possessed rich deposits of copper and silver ores…

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