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Calumet, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Calumet is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in the U.S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, that was once at the center of the mining industry of the Upper Peninsula. Calumet is famously known as the runner up in the decision of the location of the Michigan State Capitol, having lost to Lansing by one vote Calumet was also known for its wild, frontier lifestyle, which conflicted often with the conservative "eastern" money that was in control of the mining companies. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calumet,_Michigan   (937 words)

Calumet Township, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Calumet Township is a charter township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. In the township the population was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 23.6% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median income for a household in the township was $24,928, and the median income for a family was $34,236. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calumet_Township,_Michigan   (395 words)

A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets of Missouri It is situated in the southern portion of the county, and is bounded on the north by Buffalo Township, on the east by Calumet, on the south by Lincoln County, and on the west by Cuivre Township... It is bordered on the north by Peno Township and Ralls County; on the east by Cuivre Township; on the south by Indian, and on the west by Audrain County. This township is situated in the northern part of the county, and is bounded on the north by Salt River Township and Ralls County; on the east by Salt River and Buffalo Township; on the south by Cuivre and Spencer Townships, and on the west by Spencer Township and Ralls County... thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org /lochist/moser/pikeco.html   (1917 words)

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Calumet Park, Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Calumet Park (formerly DeYoung, Illinois) is a cess pool located in Cook County, Illinois, USA. A civil township is a widely-used unit of local government in the United States, subordinate to a county. Calumet Park (formerly DeYoung, Illinois) is a town located in Cook County, Illinois, USA. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Calumet-Park,-Illinois   (4658 words)

Welcome to the Calumet Township Trustee's Office Website - Bridge to a new Life Calumet Township is committed to providing professional, compassionate service to help residents in time of dire economic emergency. The Calumet Township Trustee is Mary Elgin, who was elected November 6, 2002 to her first four-year term. Calumet Township is classified as an urban township. www.calumettwp-in.gov   (315 words)

Calumet Township, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin It is bounded on the north by Calumet County; on the east by the same county and the town of Marshfield in Fond du Lac County; on the south by the towns of Marshfield and Taycheedah, and on the west by Winnebago Lake. The "Ledge" extends through this town nearly parallel with the lake shore; and, besides being in early days the refuge of numberless snakes and wild animals, was the source of numerous beautiful springs, a famous resort for nut and grape gatherers and the seat of fine stone-quarries and lime-kilns. Calumet Village, with its large local trade, is partly in Calumet County. www.wlhn.org /fond_du_lac/towns/Calumet.htm   (902 words)

Heritage Center Calumet St. Anne's Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The Township has delegated the development and operation of St Anne's to the management board of the Keweenaw Heritage Center at St Anne's. The mission of the Keweenaw Heritage Center at St Anne's is to preserve and interpret the culture and heritage of the Copper Country through the preservation of buildings, development of exhibits and other educational activities. Located at the head of downtown Calumet's commercial district, The Keweenaw Heritage Center, formerly St Anne's Church, is a pivotal structure of the Calumet Downtown National Historic Landmark District. www.pasty.com /heritage/history.html   (360 words)

Pike County Missouri - Calumet Township Calumet township is approximately 10 miles in length and width. It is bounded on the north by Buffalo township, on the east by the Mississippi River, on the south by Lincoln County, and on the west by Buffalo and Prairieville townships. Of all the townships in Pike County, Calumet led the way with graveled roadways, the Calumet Road achieving nationwide recognition for its bicycle races in the 1890's when cyclists came from throughout the country to race about "the belt", as it was then known, for prizes and fame. www.pcgenweb.com /pcgs/twnshp/calumet.htm   (2119 words)

Calumet Township, Michigan Calumet Township is a township located in Houghton County, Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 6,997. As of the census of 2000, there are 6,997 people, 2,892 households, and 1,697 families residing in the township. www.fastload.org /ca/Calumet_Township,_Michigan.html   (377 words)

Calumet Township These funds enabled the township to purchase the National Tea Grocery Store at 126th and Ashland which was converted into what has become a model senior center. The latest jewel of the township is the soon-to-be completed medical facility located at 126th street and Ashland. Calumet Township cannot operate in a vacuum and it's Ray's leadership and abilities to forge relationships with other strong political leaders such as Frank Snow, Calumet Park Recreation Board Chairman; Buster Porch, Mayor of Calumet Park; Donald Peloquin, Mayor of Blue Island; Zenovia Evans, Mayor of Riverdale; and John Rita, Democratic Committeeman of Calumet Township. www.calumettownship.org   (398 words)

Calumet (river) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Calumet (river) The Little Calumet rises near Gary, Indiana, and flows generally west into Illinois, to Blue Island, where it turns east again towards its junction with the Grand Calumet. The Grand Calumet also flows east from the Gary area, passing though East Chicago and Hammond on its way to the junction. The Calumet area, including the Illinois communities of Calumet City and southern parts of Chicago, as well as Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting, and other Indiana municipalities, is one of the most heavily industrialized regions in the USA, and one in which natural waterways have been most thoroughly altered. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Calumet+(river)   (243 words)

Calumet - Michigan's Upper Peninsula What you can't see in Calumet today are the headframes that once towered over the mine shafts, housing the cables and pulleys that lowered miners in man cars, three men abreast and six deep, down into the mines. Calumet Township - the unincorporated area around the C&H industrial core and various nearby locations like Swedetown, Florida, Tamarack, Centennial, and Albion - was over 32,000, contrasted with today's 7,900. The Calumet consolidated school district is the Keweenaw Peninsula's biggest, thanks in good part to its large student population of the area's many fertile Apostolic Lutheran families, among whom it's not rare to have ten or more children. hunts-upguide.com /calumet.html   (2902 words)

Programs - Calumet Township Trustee's Office Calumet Township Trustee Mary Elgin, a strong advocate of education and training for Calumet Township clients require participants to pursue marketable job skills and formal education. The Calumet Township Trustee's Office under the leadership of Trustee Elgin, requires by policy and law that every opportunity be afforded to Calumet Township clients to increase and enhance employment possibilities. The Calumet Township Trustee's Office understands the importance of educational training in order to break the cycle of poverty which has plagued this community. www.calumettwp-in.gov /programs.html   (1479 words)

Hexapedia - Calumet, Michigan (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Calumet is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in the U.S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The copper mines were particularly rich; the Red Jacket based Calumet & Hecla Mining Company produced about half of the USA's copper in the 1870s and 1880s. In 2004 a game based on Monopoly, Calumetopoly, was released, with sqaures named after local businesses; the game quickly sold out. www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Calumet,_Michigan   (660 words)

News articles for Calumet, Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Calumet Farm, which since 1992 has been home almost exclusively to horses owned or bred by Henryk de Kwiatkowski, will soon be open to other owners for... CALUMET CITY -- Several south suburban mayors groups and a convention bureau are supporting a plan for recreation tourism and economic development along the Cal... CALUMET CITY -- Calumet City police officers can not be forced to live within city limits as a condition of their employment, a state appellate court ruled... www.linkmorgue.org /united_states/full/Minnesota/Calumet.html   (2401 words)

Pike County Missouri - Prairie Township Prairieville township was the tenth and last township established in Pike County, carved out of the southwestern corner of Calumet township in February 1870. It is located in the southern portion of the county and is bounded on the north by Buffalo and Calumet township, on the south by Lincoln County, on the east by Calumet township, and on the west by Cuivre township. Although Prairieville township was never characterized by numerous bustling towns or widespread industry, it has, nonetheless, made its mark on the county with its fertile farmlands and the communities of Aberdeen, Prairieville and Eolia. www.pcgenweb.com /pcgs/twnshp/prairie.htm   (755 words)

Calumet Mine & Coke Works, Calumet, Mt. Pleasant Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA, U.S.A. The Calumet Mine and Coke Works, power house and tipple located along Sewickley Creek, Calumet, Mt. Plaesant Township, Westmoreland County, PA A make-shift bridge of planks, is in the foreground, used by the miners to cross Sewickley Creek. The condition of Calumet Mine in ca.1910, from the mine inspectors reports, was: Calumet Mine - Ventilation is good, except in a small section of the pillar workings to the left of the main haulage road. In 1920 Calumet Mine produced 157,816 tons of coal and 85,641 tons of coke, there were 260 bee-hive coke ovens with 150 in operation, and employed 241 men and boys. patheoldminer.rootsweb.com /calumet.html   (1954 words)

Crime Scene Cleanup in Calumet Township, IN (Indiana) 888-246-9111 Nationwide 24hrs John Township, is seeking his sixth term and is unopposed in the race for the... Marie Jax, 49, and her husband, Keith Jax, 39, of Calumet Township, were charged in September 2003 with torturing a mentally handicapped family member with... Calumet Township Assessor Booker Blumenberg also said he has thought about running for the office, but called a campaign in 2007 andquot;unlikely.andquot;. www.crimeclean-up.net /modules.php?name=city&city=9385   (690 words)

Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com GARY -- Calumet Township officials are trading political barbs over how Trustee Mary Elgin spends her $23 million annual budget. They are demanding the state investigate misappropriation involving the township's 198-employee payroll, including salaries of her top advisers. Calumet Township, which includes the city of Gary and part of Griffith, spends more on assistance of the homeless than entire budgets for many towns and cities. www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2004/01/31/news/region_and_state/3adceaca494523da86256e2c001c55af.txt   (561 words)

Gary the Magic City, page 1 Because the building of the municipality was included in the plans of the steel company for the area, Gary was truly a "city by decree." In 1915 it was reported to be the greatest single calculated achievement of the nation's steel industry. The nearest settlements were the village of Miller and the community around the Aetna Powder Plant to the east, the small village of Clark to the west, and the town of Tolleston about three miles from the lake front to the south. The relocation of the Grand Calumet River was an achievement of epic proportions. www.dlib.indiana.edu /collections/steel/context/text/09.html   (4149 words)

Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce: School Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) On September 17, 1864, the Calumet Conglomerate lode was found by E. Hulbert and became the basis for the magnificent Calumet and Hecla development. The grand opening of the Calumet Theatre on March 20, 1900 was a recognition by the leaders of the time that the 44,000 residents of Calumet Township could easily support a cultural facility of this type. Annexation of No. 2 District, Calumet Township and the Allouez Township Schools in Keweenaw County on April 21, 1975 is a historic milestone in the history of the school system. keweenaw.org /index.php?page=school_reports   (7702 words)

Edward T. Goulet (Hallberg Family Data) • Edward was counted in the 1910 US census for Calumet Township, Houghton, Michigan. • Edward was counted in the 1920 US census for Calumet Township, Houghton, Michigan. • Edward was counted in the 1930 US census for Calumet Township, Houghton, Michigan. www.visi.com /~tth/genealogy/4760.htm   (108 words)

Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) He represents Calumet Township, which includes the city of Gary, the town of Griffith and about 14 square miles of unincorporated area between the two. "The township plays a supporting role and is an excellent team player, but once the county steps in, it speaks for all taxpayers in the county. Merrillville lawyer Dock McDowell said Blumenberg should be on equal footing with county and state officials in the eyes of the law and should be able to thwart the deal because it results in higher bills to Calumet Township homeowners. www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2004/07/02/news/top_news/109bea6b1d9364b586256ec4008269cb.prt   (603 words)

HISTORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The Calumet Hockey Association was organized in 1954 as the Northern Division of the Copper Country Junior Hockey Association. Because the program was based out of Calumet, and most hockey people from outside of the area didn't know what the letters CLK-TL stood for, the name was changed to Calumet Hockey Association (CHA) in 1985 and remains so to the present. The Calumet Lions Squirt A and AA teams won back to back state titles in 1989 and 1990 while Tiny's Party Store Squirt B and Jilbert's Dairy Pee Wee B took home state titles in 1994 and 1995 respectively. www.hockeyguys.com /cha/history.html   (1690 words)

Pike County Missouri - Hartford Township Hartford Township, at the southwestern end of Pike County, is bounded by Indian and Ashley townships on the north, Lincoln County on the east, Montgomery and Lincoln Counties on the south, and Audrain County on the west. The township had a few settlers as early as 1819, among which was the Mastin Moore family whose descendants still live in New Hartford 160 years later. The township suffered from inaccessibility in its early history due to the lack of ground roads or rail service. www.pcgenweb.com /pcgs/twnshp/hartford.htm   (864 words)

House fires leave families homeless HANCOCK -- A Calumet Township mother and her two children -- who lost all their possessions when a fire swept through their side of a duplex home early Monday morning, Dec. 31, 2001 -- have received aid from the Western Upper Peninsula American Red Cross. Calumet Township Fire Chief Keith Jenich said the family escaped the fire with only the sleepwear on their backs. Margaret Benda, formerly Margaret Junttila, is a native of Calumet and a retired special education teacher. www.keweenawnow.com /news/house_fires_02_01/house_fires_02_01.htm   (751 words)

Governor Granholm tours Calumet During her tour of Calumet's downtown "Main Street" district on Wednesday, Aug. 20, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm shakes hands with Jordan Gherna, 12, of Laurium, and greets the rest of the family, pictured clockwise: John Gherna, 12; Mom Lynn Alsen; Dillon Gherna, 15; and Katelynn Gherna, 10. Calumet native and Village Trustee Paul Frederickson, a member of the Calumet Heritage Celebration Committee and owner of Affordable Funeral Planning Group, was among the Calumet Village officials accompanying Granholm on the tour, which was the first stop on her August 20th visit to the Copper Country. Jim Lowell, Calumet Theatre executive director; Eve Lindsey, Calumet Theatre Board chair, and Carole Baranowski, Theatre Board member, welcomed Granholm to the historic Calumet Theatre.** Also greeting her in the Theatre were Calumet Village Trustees Abe Voelker, Paul Frederickson and Jim Flood. www.keweenawnow.com /news/granholm_visit_03_08/granholm_visit_03_08.htm   (1551 words)

Purdue University Calumet | News @ Purdue Calumet Chambers, a Purdue Calumet professor emerita and former Gary schoolteacher, was a recipient of Purdue's President's Award for Dedication to Higher Education. Chambers came to Purdue Calumet in 1969 as a guest lecturer and advanced in rank to professor of communication. Additionally, she was a board member of numerous organizations including the Gary Educational Development Foundation, The Methodists Hospitals of Northwest Indiana, Northwest Indiana Visiting Nurses Association and the Steel City Hall of Fame. www.calumet.purdue.edu /news/releases/03-11-13_yjean-chambers-obit.html   (461 words)

Job Search Works - Calumet Township Trustee's Office The Calumet Township Trustee's Office must by law require recipients to make every effort to find employment. Although it is the client's ultimate responsibility, to find employment, the Calumet Township Trustee has expanded services and provided additional staff support to accomplish these goals and objectives. Job readiness is a training and development program of the Calumet Township Trustee's Office whose primary purpose is to reeducate the clients of Calumet Township on the fundamentals of obtaining employment. www.calumettwp-in.gov /jobsearchworks.html   (407 words)

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