Local History

A station on the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railroad, on the Lake Gogebic shore, in Matchwood Township.  The village was founded and named by Gunlak A. Bergland, of Milwaukee, who built a sawmill here in 1900.  Storekeeper Peter A. Johnson became its first postmaster on April 20, 1903.

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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