On Michigan Technological University’s campus in Houghton is the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, which has earned the designation as the state’s official mineral museum. The Seaman museum houses more ...

Highland sailor Bob Baxter sailed the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes for half a century. People told him he should write a book. Now he has.

In fact, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum estimates that around 6,000 ships lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes, and that around 30,000 people lost their lives as they sank.

This marks a culmination of a two-year search by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS).© Great lakes shipwreck museum The steal steamer was considered a symbol of the gilded age ...