6/29 Fort Wilkins State Park, Copper Harbor, MI

Copper Harbor is at the far end of the Keweenaw Peninsula.  It was a source of copper for Native Americans for many centuries and a heavily mined area in the late 1800s and early 1900s. 

Fort Wilkins was only occupied for a few years in the 1850s, but most of the buildings have survived and are original.  There was no one around, but on weekends, there are reenactors here.

A sampling of the buildings and exhibits in them. 

 

The blacksmith shop. 

 The cans on the right say "Essence of Coffee" which I assume means they are instant coffee???  Yje ones on the left are jelly. 

I guess they had a lot of one-pot meals!!  

The hospital ward. 

The local wildlife. 

Copper Harbor is a very small town, and not very fancy.   Anyway, someone has a sense of humor.  I suspect that added the bottom sign during the depths of a very cold winter.