Bruce K. Cox
408A Sunday Lake Street
P.O. Box 131
Wakefield, Michigan 49968
Books on local and regional mining history including names of mines and miners on the Gogebic Range, which included Iron, Ashland, Vilas and Bayfield Counties in Wisconsin, as well as Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties in Michigan.
Bessemer Area Historical Society
Bessemer Area Heritage Center
PO Box 148
Bessemer, MI 49911
Holdings include information and displays on logging, mining and mining deaths, the Gogebic County Poor House, local World War II deaths, and an incomplete set of city directories beginning from 1888: Gogebic Range Mining and Business Directory Gogebic County MI & Ashland Co. WI. (Iron County was not yet formed); the 1892 and 1912 Directories containing information about Ironwood, Michigan and Hurley, Wisconsin; the 1928, 1938 and 1947 contain both business and residential listings and also much information about the area including Ironwood , Ironwood Township, Erwin Township, Bessemer City, Puritan Loc., Bessemer, Bessemer Township, Marenisco Township, Carlson Township, Watersmeet Township, Wakefield, and Bergland Village & Township.
The Gogebic Range Genealogical Society
PO Box 23
Ironwood, MI 49938
The Ironwood Historical Society
Old Depot Museum
150 North Lowell
Ironwood, MI. 49938
PHONE: (906) 932-1122
Available is information about local mines and miners, and the Luther L. Wright High School.
The Marenisco Township has a link to records of the Marenisco Township Cemetery: http://www.marenisco.com/Cemetery.htm
Further information can be obtained at the
Township Offices,
314 Hall St.
PO Box 198
Marenisco, MI 49947
Wakefield Historical Society
Esther Wacker
Gogebic County
306 Suday Lake Street
PO Box 114
Wakefield, MI 49968
PHONE: (906) 224-8151 or (906) 224-1045