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The Keweenaw Peninsula averages over 250 inches of snow per year — more than any location east of the Mississippi.
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Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan
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The Keweenaw's 1840s “copper fever” became one of the first mineral-mining rushes in the United States.
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Early Native peoples began mining and using Keweenaw copper more than 7,000 years ago.