Norway Spring

Norway Spring is a Michigan historical marker in Norway, Dickinson County, dedicated 1966.

US-2 West of Norway, at the Old Street intersection, Norway

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In 1878 a sawmill was erected here as the first industry in the Norway-Vulcan area. John O’Callaghan was owner of this mill, which supplied early mining lumber needs until 1902. This spring was caused by a 1094-foot hole drilled in 1903 by the Oliver Mining Company in a search for iron ore. The hole cuts several steeply dipping porous strata that trap water at higher elevations to the north. The difference in elevation causes pressure; this pressure is released by the drilled hole, demonstrating the principle of the artesian well. On the slope to the north are the obscure workings of the Few and Munro mines, operated in 1903-1922, now owned by the Ford Motor Company.

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1852 · Wisconsin (Cowperthwait, 1852) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1855 · Colton's Wisconsin (1855) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Chapman's new sectional map of Wisconsin (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1874 · County and Township Map of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Menominee Iron Range, Mich.. (University of Michigan Library)

County and Township Map of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin, 1874, covering the location of Norway Spring, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — County and Township Map of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin, 1874, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Norway Spring

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