Michigan
The arsenal remains an important administrative facility for Army tank production, and an armaments production center, as the headquarters for the Army's far flung TACOM (Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command). The historic tank manufacturing plant was closed...
Upper peninsula iron ore mine that has the capacity to produce eight million tons of iron ore pellets annually, one of the largest producers in the world. The operation is managed by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, which co-owns it with a number of large...
The Grand Rapids Project was made by Robert Morris in 1974 on an eroded hillslope in a city park near downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is known as the first major art earthwork to be supported by government funds, including the National Endowment for the...
This Upper Peninsula Air Force Base closed in 1995. The 5,200 acre base housed B-52 bombers and refueling aircraft, and employed around 5,000 people. Former SAC base and part of the SAGE system.
This local history museum has a room devoted to the story of James Jesse Strang, who managed to lure some 2,000 Mormons away from Brigham Young to this island in Lake Michigan, where he was crowned king of his people and ruled from 1848 until 1856, when he...
A nuclear power plant on Lake Michigan, with a single reactor. This facility includes more than twenty 16-foot-tall casks used for storage of radioactive spent fuel rods, each containing 30 tons. One of a growing number of nuclear power plants opting to store...
