Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
THE QUIET beauty of Wakefield's Lakeside Cemetery is evident during a July 12 walking tour made possible by the Wakefield Historical Society and the Wakefield Public Library.
By DAMIIAN LANG
WAKEFIELD - The first burial lot in the city of Wakefield was purchased in 1905, roughly two decades after the city was established in 1884, at about the same time that the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western railroad company laid tracks through the region.
George Wakefield, a successful business man in logging, real estate and mineral lands - originally from Henderson, New York - had surveyed the area and established the city named for him.
At the time, there were no roads to neighboring towns, and workers lived in boarding houses.
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