Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Large black and white historic photos were recently added to the exterior of the Ontonagon Memorial Building.
ONTONAGON - A project by the Ontonagon Township Board will acquaint residents of what it was like to live in the village during the "old days."
Large pictures from the past were installed Saturday on the outside façade of the Memorial Building in Ontonagon.
The pictures, many of them four-by-eight-feet in dimension, highlight the Ontonagon harbor in the 1800s, the business district during the same era, logging, and the most famous of the pictures called "Up from the Ashes."
The pictures are from the collection of township clerk Bill Chabot and Ontonagon businessman Rob Chapman. Bob Burrows completed the finish on the pictures and erected them on a section of the Memorial Building wall facing Pennsylvania Street.
Chabot said the pictures were completed before the all-school reunion and positive comments have already started coming in to the office.
