Ishpeming

Ishpeming

      city, Marquette county, northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. It is located in the Marquette Iron Range, about 12 miles (20 km) west-southwest of Marquette. Founded in the 1850s as a centre for iron-mining activities, its name is Ojibwa (Chippewa) for “high grounds.” Since the 1880s Ishpeming has been a popular ski resort. The mining of iron ore—now limited to open-pit extraction of low-grade ores at the Empire and Tilden mines, Michigan's only remaining iron mines—is economically important, as are the manufacture of explosives, lumbering, marble quarrying, and winter sports. The National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum is in Ishpeming, and an international ski-jumping tournament is held annually. Nearby are Van Riper State Park and Mud Lake, where ethnologist Lewis Henry Morgan (Morgan, Lewis Henry) collected data for his book The American Beaver and His Works (1868). Inc. village, 1871; city, 1873. Pop. (2000) 6,686; (2005 est.) 6,507.

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