Herman, Michigan
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Herman is an unincorporated farming district in L'Anse Township of Baraga County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was established in 1901 by Herman Keranen, born November 5, 1862 in Puolanka, Oulun Laani, Finland. Coordinates are .[1]
The first residents were Matt Anderson, Gust Kontio, Erkki Kayramo, Nels Majhannu, Jacob Kuusisto, Henry Pasanen, Joseph Pekkala and Eli Korpi.
Keranen had been working in the lumber camps when he bought several forty-acre plots and constructed a crude log cabin. With the money he earned from lumbering, he established the largest and most productive farm in the area, which led to the community being named for him. For a number of years, the primary access to the area was via the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad Company. A school was built in 1903, and a post office followed in 1904. The Herman Athletic Association was organized in 1912, and a farmer's cooperative association in 1919. The area boasted at least one store and one mercantile business.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ USGS GNIS: Herman
- ^ * (1976) Baragaland Bicentennial 1776-1976. Baraga, Michigan: The Lumberjacks.
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