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Exploring our Heritage through our Ancestors

Bartush Family, Iron Mountain, Norway & Vulcan

Bjork, August Frederick and Kristina Mathilda

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Local History

The village was born with the sinking of the first test pit of the Old Norway Mine by Anton Odell, a Norwegian, in 1877, and the platting of the original town by him in 1879.  George and James O'Callaghan built a sawmill here in 1878.  The village was given a post office as Ingolsdorf on September 11, 1879, but was renamed Norway on December 8, 1879.  Incorporated as a city in 1891.  A station on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad.  It was in Menominee County until Dickinson was organized in 1891. 

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

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