While known for decades the beautiful sandstone cliffs along the Keweenaw's south-east shore were relatively ignored until the 1870s when a man by the name of George Craig - a stone cutter and son of an English quarrier - saw their promise as a source of high quality building stone and opened a quarry of his own. A decade later a businessmen by the name of Henry Jacobs opened a second quarry nearby, establishing the town of Jacobsville in the process...
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