ALBERTA — Henry Ford’s influence in the Upper Peninsula is often overshadowed by copper and mining industry.

However, Friday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Alberta Sawmill pump house is aimed at bringing more of Ford’s U.P. presence to light. Mike DesRochers, chairman of the Committee to Save the Alberta Sawmill, under the Baraga County Historical Society, said the ribbon-cutting ceremony is to celebrate the opening of the pump house museum and to showcase ongoing preservation work to the sawmill. The pump house will be an annex of the Baraga County Historical Society Museum.

“One of the things that we want to do with this, once we get the pump house open,” DesRochers said, “is we’re going to use it as kind of an information center for history.”

DesRochers said that will include Henry

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