Pelkie: 100 Years of Finnishness in Michigan's North Woods
Part 1: From Copper miners to lumberjacks to farmers
S1 • E1 Jun 26, 2019 66m
Many Finnish immigrants worked as copper miners but quickly traded that work for homesteading in the woods due to poor working conditions. They cleared the land to make way for farms. A farmer's co-op formed and it was a thriving dairy farming community.