Fayette

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Fayette

ghost town, Michigan, United States

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Silurian Period
Economic significance of Silurian deposits
…is the ghost town of Fayette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was founded as a company town in 1867 because local resources offered an abundance of Silurian dolomite for use in iron smelting. At the opposite end of the Upper Peninsula, on Drummond Island, dolomite from the Wenlock Engadine Group…
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…is the ghost town of Fayette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was founded as a company town in 1867 because local resources offered an abundance of Silurian dolomite for use in iron smelting. At the opposite end of the Upper Peninsula, on Drummond Island, dolomite from the Wenlock Engadine Group…
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