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Hanka Homestead Museum

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Nestled in a forest clearing this museum features a 1920s Finnish farm theme with furniture, dishes, tools, and farm equipment reflective of the period. A log house and barns, sauna, milk house, root celler and other outbuildings sit on a 40 acre farmstead six miles W of Keweenaw Bay on the Upper Peninsula. Hanka homestead reminds 2,000-3,000 visitors each year of an eariler age when pioneers hacked out a living in the midst of the forest.

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Location: Baraga Michigan Telephone 906-353-7116

Other History nearby:
(Covington) Covington Township Historical Society
(Baraga) Hanka Homestead Museum
(Negaunee) Michigan Iron Industry Museum
(Rockland) Old Victoria
(Baraga) Shrine of the Showshoe Priest
(Ishpeming) U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame Museum

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