Iron Mountain: Dickinson county courthouse
Dickinson county courthouse, Iron Mountain, Michigan.
Iron Mountain
Michigan, United States
Iron Mountain, city, seat (1891) of Dickinson county, southwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) west of Escanaba. Settled in 1879, it was named for its proximity to a bluff heavily stratified with iron ore. Iron Mountain was incorporated as a village in 1887 and as a city in 1889. In the 1930s underground mining became uneconomic; for a time the industry revived with open-pit mining and the pelletizing of ore,...