A picture is worth a thousand words, it's said. Sometimes, the picture completes the story, and sometimes a picture is all there is to remember an event or a person.
This section is where we'll place all our Alger County photographs, from people to places.
Clicking on the thumbnail pictures will take you to a larger version.
Visit the people of your ancestry
Frankfort Hunting Club on depot platform at Lawson, November, 1905. Can you identify
the men?
Au Train fishermen, 1912. Men identified; click on picture.
See the places of your heritage
Nettleton Hotel, Grand Marais
Ray Marentette's Hunting & Fishing Resort, Shingleton, 1940's
Rooming house, Grand Marais, 1800's
Old Munising Hospital, constructed in 1910.
Limestone Swedish Lutheran Church, about 1910.
The Munising Leather Company, 1896, the largest sole leather tannery in the world.
Munising Woodenware, located on East Munising Ave, opened around 1910, closed late 1950's.
See artifacts your ancestors may have used
Commercial fishing tugs in the winter ice, Grand Marais, 1907
DID YOU KNOW...?
...that in its 913 square miles, Alger County has 17 waterfalls and 266 inland lakes?
