History of U.P. Communications


  • History of U.P. Communications


    July 29th, 2004


    How messages and news was transported throughout the U.P.- with snowshoes, dogsleds, and during the summer, by water. Talks of the telegraph’s introduction. News updates came more quickly with the modernizing of transportation. Also, the introduction of the telephone, a very efficient way of communicating.




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Central U.P. and NMU Archives

In the late 1990s, Peter Frecchio, an announcer for WMIQ-AM radio in Iron Mountain, Michigan, contacted Russell Magnaghi. Together, they developed a weekly show on the history of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

The Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives manages on-campus office records and houses historical manuscript collections pertaining to the central Upper Peninsula. Our department is utilized by the campus and local communities as well as internationally for administrative, scholarly, and genealogical research.