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| | Baraga County, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Gateway to the Copper Country, Keweenaw Bay, L'Anse, Skanee, Aura, Pelkie, ... |
 | | The Village of Baraga is located in the northwestern part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula on L'Anse Bay, the lower part of Keweenaw Bay on the Lake Superior shorelines. |
 | | The Baraga area exhibits a rich intermingling of foreign cultures, for a large number of Irish, Scandinavian, and Yugoslav imigrants joined the French Canadians who pushed into the County to engage in lumbering and mining and later in agriculture. |
 | | The 1991 census of the Village of Baraga was 1,231, but with the opening of the Baraga Maximum Security Correctional Facility in 1993, and the need for 350 Corrections Officers and support staff, the population has continued to increase. |
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