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Several stops can lead to the same repository. Maps show selected verified locations, not every guide stop or every community represented in the records. Use each stop’s access instructions, including for online and out-of-county collections. Check access before traveling.
Email copper@mtu.edu with the collection number. Garden Level reading-room visits require appointments, currently Monday–Thursday, 1–5 p.m.
Repository informationOpen photographs for their captions and note the credited custodian. Use the society contact form for research questions. The Gay museum’s published 2026 season ended October 10; request an appointment or confirm next-season opening before travel. Marker identifies the society’s Eagle Harbor contact site, not the Central or Gay collections or a confirmed reading room.
Repository information · Map position sourceCounty outlines: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 cartographic boundaries . Selected major roads: 2024 TIGER/Line primary and secondary roads . Public repository addresses checked against the sources above, with approximate Census geocoder positions. Unmatched addresses and out-of-county repositories are listed in the key rather than assigned a guessed position. Markers identify contact locations, not collection coverage. Historical boundaries, township lines and current traffic conditions are not shown. Prepared November 1, 2026.
MS-787 is a school census ledger dated 1877–1890, naming children ages 5–19 in the Central Mine school district and recording their ages annually.
A school census is not an attendance register. The original was transferred from Houghton County Historical Society to Michigan Tech; request MS-787 rather than assuming it remains at the donor repository.
MS-292 contains school-district minutes for 1853–1895 and expense entries for 1871–1917 in one volume, including the district’s founding meeting.
These are governance and financial records, not a comprehensive student register. The two functions have different date spans.
MS-701 separates school reports for September 1943–May 1947, student files for 1933–1945, monthly registers for September 1934–May 1947, and township voter records for 1928–1932.
Use the folder dates, not the collection’s broader 1918–1947 heading. Ask staff about access and copying for individual pupil files.
MS-661 preserves an 1866 highway-commissioner bond for Frank Mayer and an 1867 constable bond for William Bodinus.
Only two bonds are described. This is not a general township officeholder register or continuous run of township records.
The society’s captioned Central photograph album includes the band, churches, miners, buildings and reunions. Its Schoolhouse at Gay museum interprets the community’s milling, fishing, lumbering and school history.
Historic photographs are contextual evidence, not automatic identifications. Image reuse requires permission from the named custodian. The museum description does not establish that pupil registers are held there.
Give the repository the locality, year, collection and specific question. Ask about the relevant volume or folder, gaps, access restrictions and copying costs. Save the citation and record what you searched, including searches with no result.
Use these dated holdings to choose a next search. This is a selection of cataloged collections, not a complete inventory of Keweenaw County records.
A range is a lead, not a guarantee. Bars show the dates stated by the cited catalog or inventory. They do not establish uninterrupted coverage, complete reporting or online image access. Unmarked years mean not represented in this selection, not that records were destroyed. Indexes and abstracts still need to be followed to the underlying record.
Listed years: 1877–1890.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Children ages 5–19; census, not attendance.
Listed years: 1853–1895.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Minutes within one volume; not pupil enrollment.
Listed years: 1871–1917.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Expense entries; same volume as minutes.
Listed years: 1943–1947.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: September 1943–May 1947; MS-701 folder 1.
Listed years: 1933–1945.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: MS-701 folder 2; confirm individual-file access.
Listed years: 1934–1947.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: September 1934–May 1947; MS-701 folder 3.
Listed years: 1928–1932.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: MS-701 folder 4; not all residents.
Listed years: 1866–1867.
Appointment at Michigan Tech Archives; cite collection and folder.
Keep in mind: Exactly two named officials’ bonds.
Confirm the historical jurisdiction as well as the date. A record may be held outside today’s county, and an inventory’s ending year does not mean recordkeeping stopped.
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