• Sunday-What'sUP December 29 - 11:43 pm

Do any of the old-timers remember the Cloverland Museum just south of Calumet? I've seen the "Cloverland Information" placard before, like the one on the bottom of today's sign...

Oh wow! I love the house and buggy picture. Will
have to come back and read this tomorrow though as I
was just heading off to bed.

Way to go, Charlie!

An interesting twist in Charlie's link to the Cloverland Museum:

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Quote:

"The location is at the heart of the famed Copper Country on the Keewenaw Peninsula, mecca of tourists who seek the historic mining centers of 'The Calumet,' and the modem lures of the woods and waters of Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula — a crowd that is swelling to record proportions this year."

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Team of horses to the rescue!

Charlie--About the Cloverland sign. When they were trying to get people to populate the U.P., the powers-that-were called the Upper "Cloverland" and even printed flyers praising the rich soil and wonderful farmability of the area. That is why the tourist park was free. they were trying to expose as many people as possible to the beauty of the U.P.. That was the the reason for "Cloverland Information. If my memory serves me that sign hung just above a small park overlooking Portage Lake just east of the Tech football field (the old one-which was later-the 2nd half of the 40s-used for married housing of returning G.I.s) That park was covered over when the college expanded the football field. The Cloverland Museum was a privately owned and filled with all sorts of old things. One was my wife's uncle's old tiller steered car. Another item was "Big Louie's" work clothes. He was over 8 feet tall. Think the museum owner was Mr. Paulson. BTW, that sign hung very near to the "You are now breathing the cleanest---" sign.

Nice weather.

Those scenes remind me a lot of winters in Wyoming and North Dakota. Harsh living but I was younger then and could handle it.

PRICELESS.!!!!!!!!!!!!!HAPPY NEW YEAR..!!!!

Historic.