FAYETTE
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NAME: Fayette COUNTY: Delta ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Cold, Snowy winters- Cool ,pleasant summers BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer and early autumn |
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No current residents except park personnel REMAINS: Many structures |
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Named after Fayette Brown, the Jackson Iron Company agent who chose the site, Fayette was once one of the Upper Peninsula's most productive iron-smelting operations. Located on the Garden Peninsula at Snail Shell Harbor, Fayette grew up around two blast furnaces, a large dock and several charcoal kilns after the Civil War. Nearly 500 residents--many immigrating from Canada, the British Isles and northern Europe--lived in and near the town that existed to make pig iron. During 24 years of operation, Fayette's blast furnaces produced a total of 229,288 tons of iron, using local hardwood forests for fuel and quarrying limestone from the bluffs to purify the iron ore. When the charcoal iron market began to decline, the Jackson Iron Company closed its Fayette smelting operation in 1891. The historic site is located in Fayette State Park. See a map of the townsite. Submitted by: Chuck Meyer
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