Postcards from the North: part two
More tourist shots from Michigan's upper peninsula...
Manistique - old water tower
Fayette - a state park & open-air historical museum featuring an industrial 'ghost town' gradually being restored.
Its natural harbor & location on Lake Michigan near the iron mines coupled with the availability of timber
made it an ideal place for charcoal production that could be used in the process of smelting iron ore.
The ore came in by rail & the finished ingots then left by ship headed for manufacturing centers like Detroit and Cleveland.
Some of the town's buildings including here the hotel, machine shop, music hall, company office, stores, etc.
The blast furnace, foundry area - charcoal kilns were off to the left.
Manistique, again, on the road back to the bridge.
Supposedly the only
Starbuck's-kinda-place in the entire Upper Peninsula.
The caramel latte was GREAT and the WiFi was FREE!
Seul Choix Point lighthouse, a real classic we found along the southern coast.
Northern Cuisine.
No trip up there is complete without enjoying a pasty.
The traditional meat pie of iron & copper miners, they were brought from home & heated on-the-job using the flame of their helmet lamps.
They are usually somewhat dry, so restaurants serve them with added gravy.
We re-heated some leftovers from supper on the campfire for breakfast.
YUM!
Farewell...a Lake Michigan sunset.
Alpha 350 | Painter, PSP
