Houghton County Historical Museum Complex, Lake Linden

The Houghton County Historical Society, once the site of the largest copper milling operation in North America is now home to the Houghton County Museum as well as the Lake Linden & Torch Lake Railroad, the one room Traprock Valley School House, an 1887 Congregational Church building (now the HCHS Heritage Center), the WPA era Leo Chaput Log Cabin and the Perl Merrill Research Center (our archives and genealogical facility).

You'll fnd our Museum complex located on M-26 in the Upper Peninsula of historic Lake Linden, Michigan, The museum building itself offers three floors of exhibits of local Copper Country mining, logging and cultural history. Some of our outdoor exhibits include a working Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. train with a 3’ gauge Porter steam engine that was used to transport various materials at their mill and smelter sites. The steam train is now used for passenger tours and interpretation of the milling operation.

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