Kelly Johnson, the Ishpeming boy who ran Lockheed’s Skunk Works
Clarence “Kelly” Johnson grew up poor in Ishpeming and became one of the great aircraft designers of the 20th century.
Cliffs Shaft Mine and the company that grew up with the iron range
The headframes of the Cliffs Shaft Mine in Ishpeming are a reminder of Cleveland-Cliffs’ long history in Marquette County.
Tilden Mine and the pellets that keep Marquette County working
The Tilden Mine near Ishpeming is the last operating iron mine on the Marquette Range and one of the county’s largest employers.
Carl Tellefsen and why skiing’s hall of fame is in Ishpeming
Norwegian immigrants made Ishpeming a ski jumping town. In 1905 one of them, Carl Tellefsen, helped found the National Ski Association there.
William Gwinn Mather, the Cleveland-Cliffs president who shaped the range
William Gwinn Mather led Cleveland-Cliffs for more than four decades and left his name on an Ishpeming inn and the model town of Gwinn.
John Voelker, the Ishpeming lawyer who wrote “Anatomy of a Murder”
John Voelker was a county prosecutor and Michigan Supreme Court justice, but he is best known for a novel he wrote under the name Robert Traver.
Glenn Seaborg, the Ishpeming native who added to the periodic table
Glenn Seaborg was born in Ishpeming in 1912 and went on to share a Nobel Prize for discovering plutonium and other elements.