Exploring our Heritage through our Ancestors

Bartush Family, Iron Mountain, Norway & Vulcan

Local History

Dr. Nelson P. Hulst came to this area in 1872 and began exploration for the Milwaukee Iron Company and developed the famous Vulcan Mine.  The village which developed from it was founded by Lewis Whitehead in 1877.  A station on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad.  It was in Menominee County until Dickinson was organized in 1891.  Vulcan was the Greek God for metal working.

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

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