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NEGAUNEE

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 342 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEGAUNEE  , a

city of Marquette county, Michigan, U.S.A., about 12 M . W. by S. of Marquette and 3 M . E. of Ishpeming, in the N.
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part of the upper peninsula . Pop . (1904) 6797; (1910) 846o . It is served by the Chicago & North-Western, the
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Duluth, South
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Shore &
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Atlantic, and the Lake
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Superior & Ishpeming
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railways . It is built on a ridge called Iron Mountain, 1564 ft. above sea-level, and under and near it are some of the most productive iron-ore deposits in the state, the
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mining of which is the
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principal industry of the city . The settlement of Negaunee began about 187o, and the city was chartered in 1873 .

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