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Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye Map of Hurley

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye map of Hurley with insets Mining at the Colby, Hurley in 1885, and North Front of Silver Street.
Photograph

Gogebic Range Miners

Date: 1886
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners.
Print

Burton House

Date: 1885
Description: Burton House, (also referred to as the Ridge House by Edna Ferber in her novel, "Come and Get It") with horse-drawn carriages in the foreground.
Photograph

Tunnel after Snowstorm

Date: 03 1899
Description: Winter scene of man wearing an overcoat and hat stands with a shovel at the far end of a snow tunnel shoveled through a tall snowbank.
Photograph

Cabbage, Tobacco Plants, and Sweet Corn

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: A plot of land in front of a row of houses features cabbage in the foreground, ripe, four-foot tall Havana seed leaf tobacco plants in the center, and swee...
Historical Essay

Chynoweth, Mary Hayes (1825-1905)

Spiritualist and Psychic Healer
Biography of spiritualist and psychic healer Mary Hayes Chynoweth.
Historical Essay

Mining in Northern Wisconsin

The Boom and Bust of the 19th Century
Discover how the copper boom and bust of the 19th century permanently altered the communities of northern Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Hurley

Date: 09 1891
Description: Sanborn map of Hurley, featuring the Village of Gile and the Montreal River Lumber Company.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Hurley

Date: 1898
Description: Sanborn map of Hurley featuring the Village of Gile.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Hurley

Date: 02 1898
Description: Sanborn map of Hurley featuring the Montreal Mining Company.
Photograph

Silver Street, Hurley, Prior To Fires of 1887

Date: 1887
Description: A view of the businesses present on Silver Street, Hurley's main street, less than three years after the city's settlement. City residents and a horse-dra...
Property Record

W SIDE OF S 4TH AVE N OF STATE HIGHWAY 108

Community: Hurley
County: Iron
Historic Name: IRON COUNTY MINER OFFICE
Reference Number: 18666
Property Record

NW CNR OF BERNARD ST AND N 3RD AVE

Community: Hurley
County: Iron
Historic Name: OLD HURLEY JAIL AND SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Reference Number: 18670
Property Record

303 IRON ST

Community: Hurley
County: Iron
Historic Name: Iron County Courthouse
Reference Number: 18672
Property Record

S SIDE OF SILVER ST BETWEEN 4TH AVE AND 3RD AVE

Community: Hurley
County: Iron
Historic Name: REID INSURANCE BUILDING
Reference Number: 18673
Property Record

400 SILVER ST

Community: Hurley
County: Iron
Historic Name: FORSLUND'S TAVERN
Reference Number: 18674
Property Record

220 SILVER ST

Community: Hurley
County: Iron
Historic Name: Hurley National Bank, First National Bank of Hurley
Reference Number: 18676
Property Record

120-122 SILVER ST

Community: Hurley
County: Iron
Historic Name: I. Brill and Sons
Reference Number: 80435
Property Record

207 SILVER ST

Community: Hurley
County: Iron
Historic Name: GOGEBIC MEAT & PROVISIONING CO.
Reference Number: 80436
Property Record

219 SILVER ST

Community: Hurley
County: Iron
Historic Name: FEDLER& LOFTUS STORE
Reference Number: 80437

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