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Schoolcraft County, Michigan

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6historic places

—earliest paper

1843formed

8,047pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Manistique, Restricted, Gemfask Township.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Michigan is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Schoolcraft titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 6 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Ekdahl-Goudreau Site	Restricted	Site	1978
Manistique East Breakwater Light	Manistique	Structure	2005
Manistique Pumping Station	Manistique	Structure	1981
Seul Choix Pointe Light Station	Manistique	Building	1984
Ten Curves Road-Manistique River Bridge	Gemfask Township	Structure	1999
Thunder Lake II Site	Escanaba	Site	2014

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Schoolcraft was formed in 1843 (1843-03-09) from Chippewa, Michilimackinac.

SCHOOLCRAFT created from CHIPPEWA and MICHILIMACKINAC (now MACKINAC).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Schoolcraft County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
16	78	1,575	7,889	9,977	9,524	9,148	8,953	8,575	8,903	8,047

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

14 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Blaney Cemetery	46.15342	-85.92708
Boot Hill Cemetery	46.33919	-85.94243
Byers Cemetery	46.12164	-86.26265
Cooks Cemetery	45.91774	-86.45931
Fairview Cemetery	45.96747	-86.18791
Farley Grave Site	45.79721	-86.39166
Germfask Cemetery	46.23506	-85.93012
Hiawatha / Byers Cemetery	46.12163	-86.26347
Lakeview Cemetery	45.95885	-86.23652
Old Cooks Cemetery	45.90687	-86.4365
Old Germfask Cemetery	46.21664	-85.87512
Seventh Day Adventist Cemetery	45.95413	-86.47375
Thompson Cemetery	45.91858	-86.34541
Woods Cemetery	46.05193	-86.07268

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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