Local History

Platted by the Laurium Mining Company (Laureium, in Attica, a district of ancient Greece, was a famed mining site,-there silver, here copper).  Incorporated by the supervisors as Calumet in 1889.  Reincorporated as Laurium in 1895.   

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

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