Honoring the men and women from this community who served their country.Sponsored jointly by the Bessemer Woman's Club and the Michigan State Highway DepartmentDedicated May 30, 1949
The Gogebic was the last of the three great iron ore fields opened in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. Beginning in 1848 with Dr. A. Randall, federal and state geologists had mapped the ore formations almost perfectly long before any or…