CALUMET – The The former depot is significant to the history of the Calumet area and to the state.

Neglected and largely abandoned since the last passenger train, the Copper Country Limited, departed the depot on March 7, 1968. During the height of operations of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, the depot was the final travel destination of thousands of immigrant workers and their families coming to the north end of the Copper Country.

During the early days of the infamous labor strike of 1913, Michigan militia troops, equipment and horses arrived at this depot, as did armed deputies and U.S. House committee members who came to investigate the strike.

When Calumet resident Jim Flood purchased the building in 2024, it was in poor condition. Flood and his wife, however, bought it from

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