Porcupine Mountains

Porcupine Mountains is a Michigan historical marker in Carp Lake Township, Ontonagon County, dedicated 1958.

M-107 in State Park, Carp Lake Township

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From Lake Superior the main range of mountains looks like a crouching porcupine, thus their name. Machinery, rock dumps, and old adits are ghostly reminders of forty mining ventures in the years from 1846 to 1928, none of which succeeded. Some logging took place around 1916. As late as 1930 a few trappers eked out a living here. Finally in 1945 the area was made a state park to preserve its virgin splendor.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1848 · Wisconsin and Iowa. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1852 · Wisconsin (Cowperthwait, 1852) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1855 · Colton's Wisconsin (1855) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1870 · Burritt's Sectional Minnesota (1870) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Asher & Adams' Michigan. (University of Michigan Library)

Wisconsin and Iowa, 1848, covering the location of Porcupine Mountains, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Wisconsin and Iowa, 1848, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Porcupine Mountains

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