Company Towns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Company Towns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Christian Holmes

Språken
FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9781625852762

In the company towns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a worker's boss did extra duty as landlord, store owner and constable. The on-site mill manager in Simmons, a town named after the furniture maker, even ran a successful baseball team. Built around iron mines and lumber concerns and directed by pro