Fayette Historic Townsite
On my July 1999 trip to the U.P. I toured the historic site of Fayette on the Garden Peninsula. This was a massive iron smelting operation run by the Jackson Iron Company that started soon after the civil war and ended in 1891. In June 2005 I returned to Fayette to improve the pictures here and to take in a bit of scuba diving. You can call up photos by clicking on any of the red shaded areas on the map, or by clicking on the descriptive names on the table at the bottom of the page.
| 1. | Laborer's log cabin sites | 10. | Shelton House (hotel) | 19. | Location of warehouses |
| 2. | Location of granaries and village jail | 11. | Company office and pit scale | 20. | Grain elevator site |
| 3. | Railroad grades | 12. | Standing walls of company store and warehouse | 21. | Ice house site |
| 4. | Portion of underground water system | 13. | Town Hall | 22. | Furnace complex |
| 5. | Blacksmith shop site | 14. | Homes of company supervisors | 23. | Charcoal kilns |
| 6. | Machine shop | 15. | Boarding house site | 24. | Limestone quarry |
| 7. | Carpenter shop site | 16. | Doctor's house | 25. | Lime kiln |
| 8. | Stock barns sites | 17. | Superintendent's house | 26. | Furnace complex, upper level |
| 9. | Slag beach | 18. | Sawmill site |